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...last to insist that the group remain operative before it formally disbanded in 1998. In July 1977 - 14 months after Meinhof hanged herself in prison and three months after Baader and two other confederates were convicted of murder in a controversial trial - Mohnhaupt and Klar accompanied a young RAF recruit named Susanne Albrecht as she brought a bouquet of flowers to the villa of her godfather, Dresdner Bank chairman Jürgen Ponto. When Ponto turned to pick up a vase, Klar and Mohnhaupt both opened fire, killing him. Two months later, in an attempt to spring their jailed comrades...
...directionless money, the Corporation is introducing a permanent administrative structure to oversee the interdisciplinary initiative. Such structure will be critical to the initiative’s impact long-term success, providing stability and the authority to direct it coherently.Most research at Harvard is funded through external grants, but faculty recruiting, new equipment and space, and lab renovations are all funded by Harvard based on requests by department chairs. Departments are less likely to expend resources recruiting scholars who work on the periphery of their respective fields—but these are precisely the scientists Harvard needs...
...male recruit last year,” Mitchell said. “There were definitely a lot of people and college coaches from other teams looking at him, so it was kind of a coup when we got him to come to school here...
...injury sustained while practicing over reading period ended Kinner’s season before it started, keeping the recruit off the slopes until next winter...
...economics is a large part of the story. Surveying more than 70 civil war outbreaks since the 1960s, they show that poor countries--with low per capita incomes and low growth rates--were significantly more likely to suffer civil war than richer countries. Put simply, it's easier to recruit people to rebel armies when the alternative to grinding axes is grinding poverty. At the same time, countries that rely heavily on exports of primary products (such as oil and diamonds) are prone to civil war because such commodities are easily appropriated and traded by rebel leaders. As Collier puts...