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...change? As a Western diplomat in Kabul puts it, "It takes money to fund an insurgency." Of the $3 billion earned last year by Afghan narcotraffickers, roughly $800 million trickles down to the Afghan farmers who grow the crop. According to a senior Western official in Kabul, a small portion of that sum is "more than enough to finance" the insurgency--and the Taliban gets more than a small portion. "The more money the traffickers make, the more they can give to the Taliban, the more weapons the insurgents can buy and the more dangerous the insurgency becomes," says Kamal...
...screenwriter as a conduit. “There is a mythic underpinning to screenwriting, and they have access these myths,” Rader says of students. “The best thing they could do would be to get in touch with it.” The afternoon portion of the workshop consisted of an analysis of two scripts, “Groundhog Day” and “Thelma and Louise,” which students were asked to read prior to the event. Karol W. Malik ’08 praised the workshop for providing concrete...
...Kennedy ’40; George W. Bush may be a Harvard Business School graduate, but given his membership in Skull and Bones and the ever-popular “Blame Yale” t-shirt, he hardly seems to count as a Harvard alum. As a good portion of the last presidential election was focused on which candidate had the lowest grade point average from Yale, it seems that national politics needs a change of allegiance.Ba-Rock the Vote!Harvard is finally making a return to presidential politics in 2007 in the form of Harvard Law School graduate Barack...
...first time since 1983. Unfortunately for the Crimson, Princeton successfully defended its home turf and defeated the Crimson 190-163 in the annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet. The Crimson found some solace in the fact that it overcame the Bulldogs 184-169 to complete its dual meet portion of the season with a 7-2 overall record, 6-2 in the EISL—good enough for second place in the league. Despite the fact that Harvard touched the wall first in 19 events—one fewer than the combined total of the other two squads combined?...
...Kick Coke Off Campus movement attempts to end university contracts with Coca-Cola in protest of its alleged human rights and environmental violations. College students do not constitute a particularly large portion of the corporation’s profits, but the collective movement of students around the world is both symbolic and potentially influential...