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Saturday marks the end of the period in which Harvard will match up to $100 donations that students, staff, and faculty make to Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. The end of the matching-funds drive comes exactly one week after a 7.6-magnitude earthquake rocked Kashmir, killing an estimated 20,000 to 40,000 people. But although the earthquake has created a humanitarian crisis that dwarfs even the devastation that Katrina wrought along the Gulf Coast, Harvard has chosen to value lives in Louisiana and Mississippi above those in Pakistan and India. This is not the University’s first...
...response to last Saturday's earthquake in northern Pakistan, the U.S. military commanders in Afghanistan quickly diverted eight helicopters-cargo-lifting twin-engine Chinooks and sleek Blackhawks-to help with relief work in the Pakistani Himalayas...
...foreign rescue workers up into the mountains to dig for survivors in villages that melted away like sand castles when the earthquake hit. McFadden and his colleagues dumped out tents, medical supplies and food to desperate mobs of survivors who lunged into the chopper, fighting each other for the relief bundles. Some Pakistani officials say that several times, desperate survivors denied a place on a crowded chopper tried clinging to the runners of the bird as it lifted off, nearly causing a crash...
...Merkel, the resolution of what Germans had come to call "the Chancellor's War" comes as a relief. She had been widely expected to win the election outright until the final days before the vote, and the the final result, which gave her party just a four-seat margin over Schroeder's Social Democrats, came as a severe disappointment. Having to hammer out an agreement with the Social Democrats means that she will have to water down some of her more ambitious free-market-oriented policies. Still, the chancellorship is a major accomplishment for the daughter of a Lutheran pastor...
...volunteers also helped clear the road into Balakot, making it possible for hundreds of pickups and cars to wend their way into the devastated town bringing food, blankets and tents. All were donations from Pakistanis who had seen photos of Balakot's disaster taken from army helicopters. The relief trucks were mobbed by hungry and cold people, prompting the panicked volunteers to heave out their aid packages and leave. Those who were too injured to fight their way to the trucks got nothing...