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Bennett told the audience he had met with University President Lawrence H. Summers earlier in the day and proposed that Harvard transfer some of its professors to Baghdad to rebuild Iraq’s educational system...
...Islamic centers, 1,500 mosques, 202 colleges and 2,000 schools in countries without Muslim majorities. Cambodia is one such place. After the fall of the Khmer Rouge in 1979, Cambodia's Muslims, who make up 5% of the population, turned to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to help rebuild their mosques and schools. Accompanying the aid were teachers from those countries, with the result that today 10% to 15% of Cambodian Muslims are Wahhabis. Many go to Saudi Arabia to study. "They come back and are filled with fire and want to change the way we do things," says...
...troops into the peacekeeping operations; none counseled retreat. But a minor candidate, Congressman Dennis Kucinich, threw down a wildly provocative challenge: "We should bring the troops home now." This, I fear, is a position with a future. Many polls are showing significant public ambivalence about America's commitment to rebuild Iraq--and a clear-cut desire to spend less, not more, money on the occupation. Such sentiments will increase, no doubt, as the occupation slogs on, the casualties and bills mount. The U.S. military dreads another Baghdad summer. By next spring the door will be wide open...
...example, in Hong Kong, where hospitals were initially overwhelmed by last spring's SARS outbreak, more than 500 isolation rooms capable of housing some 1,300 SARS patients will be completed by November. China's Guangdong province, ground zero for the virus, is spending more than $180 million to rebuild the provincial Center for Disease Control and add isolation rooms to hospitals. Properly prepared health facilities are key in keeping a minor outbreak from becoming a big one?SARS spread most rapidly among medical workers. "Without the trauma in hospitals there would have been no major outbreak last time," says...
Part of the phasing out of Hilles is a large-scale renovation of Lamont Library, made possible by a $1 million grant to rebuild the fifth floor reading room...