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...existed for as long as seven years, serious designing and planning only began during the last academic year and construction commenced three months ago, according to Bhatt. Despite the seeming delay in propelling the project forward, Doyle said financial constraints did not hamper the project’s progress, which was “right on track.”First-year graduate students already have a separate lounge area for themselves in Jefferson, Bhatt said. The committee is experimenting with the idea of having graduate students hold office hours in the new undergraduate study.Bhatt said she hopes the study...
Dylan R. Matthews ’12 lives in Kirkland House and is president of Perspective, Harvard’s liberal monthly magazine. His column will examine the structural impediments standing between progress both domestic and global, and the ways we can tear them down, on alternate Tuesdays...
...work in progress," hedged Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu...
...giving up the protection offered by the missile shield is not particularly difficult for the U.S. - for the simple reason that the shield doesn't offer any significant protection. The system that would have been deployed in Poland and the Czech Republic was in every sense a work in progress whose testing had not yet proved any real-world capacity to deal with a hostile missile threat. In that sense, the missile "shield" was every bit as hypothetical as the Iranian missile threat against which it was ostensibly deployed...
...funeral of a dead Afghan government soldier, a local boy; meanwhile a Taliban, who died fighting the Americans or the British, was honored as a brave martyr. It is a disturbing change among Afghans who in 2001, after the benighted years of the Taliban, welcomed foreigners bringing aid and progress...