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Mika C. Morse ’05 spent eight days in Nicaragua with her freshman seminar, “The Latin American Political and Economic Landscape,” taught by Sylvia Maxfield, a visiting professor. But their trip was hardly handed to them on a silver platter. Morse took the lead in seeking out funding sources and applying for grants to pay for travel expenses for the entire class, while other students oversaw the logistical issues of the trip. Eventually Morse was able to secure funds, primarily from the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American studies...
...over breakfast in Manchester, N.H., last week. He said he had opposed Vietnam, but he had supported the first Gulf War, the interventions in Bosnia and Kosovo, and the war in Afghanistan. In the 1980s he had "mixed feelings" about Ronald Reagan's support for the contras in Nicaragua and opposed a unilateral nuclear freeze. "I'm not a pacifist. I believe there are times when pre-emptive force is justified, but there has to be an immediate threat, and there just wasn't in this case...
...over breakfast in Manchester, N.H., last week. He said he had opposed Vietnam, but he had supported the first Gulf War, the interventions in Bosnia and Kosovo, and the war in Afghanistan. In the 1980s he had "mixed feelings" about Ronald Reagan's support for the contras in Nicaragua and opposed a unilateral nuclear freeze. "I'm not a pacifist. I believe there are times when pre-emptive force is justified, but there has to be an immediate threat, and there just wasn't in this case...
...through formal channels. Even gargantuan Western Union gets only a 12% slice of the total remittance market because so many people still send money by mailing a check or getting someone to hand-deliver the money. Every month in Los Angeles, German, 33, sends $100 to his sister in Nicaragua via Western Union or, whenever possible, by a courier who charges a couple of dollars less. "Two dollars is not a big difference here, but it's a big difference in Nicaragua," he says...
...invasion of Iraq was unnecessary. True, the dictator has gone, but the people have paid a terrible price. Few Iraqis feel "liberated." Can we be blamed for feeling uneasy about the future? It's hard to ignore the U.S.-wrought trail of wreckage and carnage extending from Nicaragua to El Salvador to Chile to Vietnam to Cambodia--and now to Iraq. GERALD W. HANKINS Canmore, Alta...