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...number, it raises the Palestinian question," says Stephane Jaquemet, the U.N. High Commission for Refugees representative in Lebanon. Still, the U.N. has worked out an agreement with the Lebanese government whereby any Iraqi given official refugee status by the UNHCR can stay in the country for a renewable one-year period. (UNHCR now automatically grants refugee status to anyone from central and southern Iraq.) But most Iraqi refugees aren't legally allowed to work in Lebanon, and those who do usually take menial under-the-table jobs such as washing cars for $14 a day. A number of Iraqi women...
...numbers are a one-year blip in a long-term trend, and they are hardly "dramatic." "For youth aged 14-19 the suicide rate increased by 11%, from 7.3 per 100,000 to 8.2 per 100,000." That's less than one extra death in 100,000. And please note that 8.2 per 100,000 is still lower than the rate...
...trip to Harvard “to learn about the case method.” “So far [the HBS cases] have blessed our campus,” she said. “My students have enjoyed it immensely.” According to Gandt, the one-year agreement is only an experimental license. Both sides are monitoring usage and possibilities for improvements, she said. The students will pay per usage of materials from the HBS repository, but because of the bulk deal struck by BYU-Idaho, contents of the library will be available at lower costs. Discussion...
...Campus Life Fellow developed from the College’s hiring of Zac A. Corker ’04 in 2004 as special assistant to the dean for social programming. Current Fellows are appointed through Harvard’s Management Fellowship Program, which awards graduating Harvard students with one-year fellowships to work on University initiatives. The cost of the fellowship is shared equally between the President’s Office and the College, according to McLoughlin...
...alumni governing body, the Board of Overseers, has elected former Vassar President Frances D. Fergusson and Boston lawyer William F. Lee ’72 to serve as president and vice chair of its executive committee, respectively, the University announced yesterday. Fergusson and Lee, who will both begin their one-year terms following Commencement, will succeed computer science professor Susan L. Graham ’64 and psychiatrist and novelist Paul A. Buttenwieser ’60. Elected as overseers in 2002, Fergusson and Lee are entering their final year as members of the board and have a long history...