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...case the Israelis knock out the city's electricity. The country can ill afford this kind of economic disruption. Reconstruction put Lebanon deeply in hock: it has one of the highest per capita public debts in the world. If the lights go out in Beirut's nightclubs, the post-war party will clearly be over...
...goals of raising faculty salaries and increasing scholarship funding.As the Class of 1956 was on the cusp of graduation, Harvard was well on its way to vast financial growth. Nonetheless, the University had to deal with some of the same economic problems as the rest of post-war America, such as large increases in the cost of living, according to Keller. He says these economic changes made the financial climate in which Harvard found itself during the class of 1956’s time at the College very different from the pre-war years...
...that the problem may be overblown. Crimes committed by far-right groups in Germany increased 24% this year, according to the new statistics released this week. But more than 90% of these far-right crimes were non-violent and political in nature, such as displaying swastikas and violating other post-war bans on Nazi propaganda. The number of racist attacks actually decreased last year. World Cup organizers insist that while neo-Nazis may be preparing to make a spectacle of themselves this summer, local police and security services are more than up to the task of keeping them in check...
...staging annual cult-of-personality party conventions and making controversial use of his private television stations to beam a Reaganesque message of smiling conservatism into the living rooms of Italian voters. Still, it has been a recipe for success for Berlusconi, 69, who has been Italy?s longest serving post-War Prime Minister since his election...
...passers-by in the Square. Last summer, he gave unicycling, juggling, and theatrical workshops at a children’s circus in Afghanistan to raise malaria and landmine awareness. At the Divinity School, he is working on a project to gauge the effectiveness of arts intervention in a post-war context, which requires counting the smiles of Afghan kids in a controlled environment. From stripping in psych class to working with kids, Warren seems to have done it all. “I haven’t done the growing up part yet, though,” he says...