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...terrorism as a phenomenon," says Refaï. Scores of members of the Tunisian Islamic organization Ennahdha have been jailed or exiled to Europe. This crackdown has intensified since Algeria's Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat last year renamed itself al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and vowed to recruit terrorists across North Africa. In January, at least 14 people were killed in gun battles between security forces and groups of militants who had slipped across the border from Algeria...
Representatives from UBS will visit Harvard’s Faculty Club on Nov. 14 to recruit summer interns for their firm. They will advertise the fact that UBS is one of the world’s leading investment banks and that it manages assets worth well over $2 trillion. But there is one aspect of UBS’s operations that might escape mention at the recruitment session: The bank plays an important role in underwriting the supporters of Sudan’s genocidal government.The Swiss-based bank is arranging a massive stock offering that could raise more than...
...name basketball coach.Now, that coach, Tommy Amaker, is bringing in the big-name players.“Big-name players” may be a stretch for now, but Amaker, according to reports from rivals.com and ESPN.com, has already received commitments from four high-caliber basketball recruits to play for the Crimson starting with the 2008-2009 season.NCAA rules prevent Amaker from discussing recruits by name, but the coach let on that things are going well on the recruiting trail as he lures recruits by pitching Harvard’s high academic prestige.“I can?...
...Harvard because they don’t have the money, and they have more low-income students,” Baum said. Donahue took issue with the claim that Harvard had fewer lower-income students than most schools. “We are trying very hard to aggressively recruit talented students world-wide, regardless of their financial backgrounds,” she said. For the first time, the College Board’s study included information on the size of university endowments, which have come under congressional scrutiny in recent months. Some politicians have questioned why universities with large endowments...
Farmer said he thought that finance firms would continue to recruit regardless of current economic conditions on the assumption that the crisis is only temporary...