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...presence in the East African nation has expanded markedly. In June, PetroChina/CNPC signed a 20-year deal to develop Sudan’s offshore oil production—a project that will open up a new stream of revenue for the Sudanese government, which spends 70 percent of its oil earnings on the country’s armed forces. According to a 2005 Harvard report, oil exports are “a crucial source of revenue for the Sudanese government, essential to the government’s capacity to fund military operations.” In the past four years...
...fiscally conservative and socially liberal has substantially increased,” a fact that is supported by national polls. In a policy analysis entitled “The Libertarian Vote” by Boaz and David Kirby, multiple national surveys (including the Gallup poll) find from 10 to 20 percent “giving libertarian answers...
...Harvard represents a microcosm for this general confusion. In the dining hall poll cited earlier, while only 16 percent of those surveyed aligned themselves with libertarian politics, 28 percent considered themselves to be socially liberal but fiscally conservative, a typical libertarian stance. This is a large minority to be sure, and one that could probably grow given impetus and organization...
...men’s club Ultimate Frisbee team emerged this semester as one of the best in New England. And it filled less than 2 percent of its $30,000 budget with money from Harvard. The Red Line, as the team calls itself, had an impressive showing in its first two tournaments of the fall season. It finished first in tournaments at Bowdoin and Williams colleges, racking up a combined record of 13-0. “It’s definitely been the best fall season we’ve had since I’ve been at Harvard...
Medical school students receive little instruction about military medical ethics and are often unaware of a physician’s ethical duties under the Geneva Conventions, according to a new study by Harvard Medical School faculty. Of the 1,700 students surveyed around the country, 94 percent said that they had received less than one hour of military medical ethics instruction during medical school. The study also found that 33.8 percent of students did not know that the Geneva Conventions require that doctors “treat the sickest first, regardless of nationality.” In addition to four...