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...altogether, but I understand that from HUDS’ perspective and Harvard’s perspective that that’s something a lot of students would complain about,” she says. “It would be hard for that small number of students who really can’t eat lunch and don’t want to get Greenhouse [Café food] every single day because it’s expensive...

Author: By Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fly-By Goes Greener | 10/2/2009 | See Source »

...reliable as the Crimson defensive backfield has been in breaking up passes, it still needs to cut down on its number of penalties. Harvard, as a team, has amassed 21 penalties for a total of 212 yards through the first two games, and the Crimson’s defense notched five costly errors last week against the Bears...

Author: By Erika T. Butler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Hopes To Avoid Letdown at Lehigh | 10/2/2009 | See Source »

...project spending and has hired an outside auditor to track the money, according to Dona Dinkler, the USAID IG's chief of staff. USAID declined to comment, but it has blamed high staff turnover - four different USAID employees oversaw the project successively - and security concerns, which severely limited the number of hands-on visits to the remote Sindh and Baluchistan provinces, where the project was meant to have its greatest impact. "In that case, you have to find other ways to provide oversight to the extent necessary to protect American taxpayer dollars," says Dinkler. Unfortunately, similar shortcomings continue to plague...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Development Dollars in Pakistan Being Well Spent? | 10/1/2009 | See Source »

...Much to the frustration of military advisers who want them in bigger conflict zones, the U.S. military keeps a small number of highly skilled soldiers in the southern Philippines to help train local troops in their ongoing fight against Abu Sayyaf, which the U.S. State Department believes has only between 200 and 500 active members today. The Philippine military told a reporter that the U.S. troops in the Sept. 29 incident were not involved in any combat operations but "were just there to help in building a school." The deaths were the first U.S. military casualties to occur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Abu Sayyaf | 10/1/2009 | See Source »

...comparisons between the NATO mission in Afghanistan and the failed Soviet occupation in the 1980s are flawed, there is an unfortunate parallel in at least one respect: Moscow's insistence that Afghans recognize their puppet government, despite its failure to deliver to the people. "Everyone is focusing on the number of troops the U.S. has in Afghanistan," says analyst Haroun Mir, director of Afghanistan's Center for Research and Policy Studies. "The Russians had twice as many troops [as the NATO coalition does now] but they failed, not because they were weak, but because the Afghan government was never accepted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. Accepts Karzai, for Better or Worse | 10/1/2009 | See Source »

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