Word: rebuilders
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...CHOOSE A CAUSE Cisco Systems' $40 million pledge--$10 million from the chairman and $2 million from the CEO--to rebuild Katrina-ravaged Gulf Coast schools underscored the company's commitment to educational reform. That followed on the heels of a 2003 Jordan Education Initiative, spearheaded and partially funded by Cisco, to offer Internet-enabled learning to the developing world. Volunteers were also sent to Ethiopia to teach computer and Internet skills...
...another great American tragedy, the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s, people didn't wait for government help to rebuild in an untenable environment. Instead, they moved to places better suited to habitation. How much would it cost to build a reliable levee around New Orleans--$25 billion? $50 billion? For $25 billion, we could build a new $90,000 home for 275,000 households displaced by Katrina. Simple economics says New Orleans should not be rebuilt. CHARLIE SMITH Pittsburgh...
...symbolically—by refusing it access to soldiers. The military should not risk Harvard’s scientific contributions by toying with its funds. If the Solomon Amendment is indeed upheld, neither institution should view it as a victory or a loss. Both should take the opportunity to rebuild a shattered relationship, for the good the nation that they love...
...torture diminishes the U.S.’s soft power because citizens are less likely to support the U.S. when they witness it employing torture. Soft power is also misused because there is a lack of Arabic translators for the troops that leads to miscommunication when attempting to rebuild cities and patch up relationships. Fick has written an autobiography, entitled “One Bullet Away,” about his service in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is on a book tour and has visited 23 cities thus far. Nye and Fick also talked about other problems facing the military...
...programs to the faculty and students in that university,” Cheng said. “You could send the books to Beijing or another prominent university, but they would be likely to have the books already,” Cole said. Though HCL staff has worked to rebuild libraries across the world such as in Bosnia and Iraq, Cole said that, to her knowledge, HCL has not made a donation like this before. University President Lawrence H. Summers and Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby approved a recommendation to make the gift in early summer 2004, Cole...