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...possible that a student will find his or her class is a bad fit, even after the third Monday of the term. This student already faces an extremely difficult decision. Two weeks of makeup work is a daunting prospect for the average Harvard student. The other option—choosing to remain in the course—entails being trapped in a class that he or she dislikes. Given the gravity of this decision and the stress accompanying it, the administration should not be invoking a penalty that skews the student’s choice...
...some U.S. soldiers in Iraq, however, the prospect of leaving sooner rather than later within the established withdrawal timeline is welcome. "Good," said Army Captain Matt van Stavern, whose unit is serving in Mosul, where U.S. and Iraqi security forces continue to battle insurgents who've remained active in the city for the past year despite an overall drop in violence across the country. "My boys are ready to go home. And the Iraqi people will be ready...
...good reason to do so. Tibet is a fresh market for China’s rapidly growing economy, and its relative lack of indigenous capital makes it an easy target for predatory Chinese corporations. If that weren’t incentive enough, rampant housing discrimination makes Tibet a nice prospect for any Chinese entrepreneur. Most of the new subsidized housing—which the Chinese government made room for by razing thousands of Tibetan monuments—are given to new “Chinese settlers” to provide these new-age colonizers with the most comfortable facilities available...
...Party posters. The two main shopping areas, Liberty and Anarkali, were shut down, as were a number of roads and bridges. Gunfire has been heard in parts of Rawalpindi, where some Sharif supporters have trashed posters commemorating Bhutto. Meanwhile, the country's stock exchange dipped 5% at the prospect of deepening political instability. More demonstrations are planned for Thursday...
When he was the king of cocaine, the prospect of doing hard time in an American penitentiary was about the only thing that made Pablo Escobar's blood run cold. Living by the motto "Better a tomb in Colombia than a prison cell in the United States," Escobar unleashed a wave of car bombings and assassinations that forced the Colombian government to water down extradition laws. Cowed officials even built Escobar a five-star jailhouse, with a Jacuzzi, discotheque and fake waterfall, for a brief stint behind bars before the drug lord was gunned down by police...