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...Leave No Afghan Behind Having helped build or repair 27 schools in north-central Afghanistan over the past six years, I can verify that education is a building block to eliminating poverty, oppression and extremism [Jan. 28]. I have seen remarkable social, political and economic changes among the more than 20,000 children we represent, particularly the girls. They are marrying later and having fewer children. Families are healthier, and mortality rates have decreased. Children are learning much needed life skills. More important, there is now hope. Despite staggering odds, kids are thinking about the future. There is new respect...
...state parties to raise unregulated "soft money," and well-heeled Democratic donors across the country presumably would see the need to get the issue resolved and chip in, especially if both campaigns support the idea. "The biggest incentive for both campaigns is that this is a way to repair all the damage, and build for November," says one Florida party official...
...women’s hoops is poised to qualify for the Big Dance for the second straight year.The April hiring of Amaker, who has experience helming major-conference teams at Seton Hall and Michigan, seemed to signal a long-overdue move on the part of the administration to repair the historically pathetic program. This process has to include giving the coach the go-ahead to attract Ivy championship-caliber players to Cambridge.According to Thamel, several candidates who interviewed for the head coaching job along with Amaker confirmed that they were told that they would be allowed to compete with...
...March 5 Cambridge City Council roundtable meeting on housing.Annis says that the University has offered him $1,500 in return for a legal promise not to make further claims against Harvard. Instead, he says he’s made a counteroffer, asking for $90,000 to cover repairs to the sunken foundation of his Riverside home—a foundation he says is “just large rocks, rather than reinforced concrete.”“[Before building at Cowperthwaite] Harvard told the planning board that they would mitigate damages,” Annis says...
...been so successful it is studied by visiting business students from places such as Harvard, Wharton and INSEAD. The first step: speed things up - not the trains themselves but the turnaround time between the end and beginning of each new trip. In 2001 the average time to unload, repair, refuel and reload a freight train in India was 7.1 days. Now it is just five days, which means that 800 trains leave on a new journey each day, rather than just 550. Given that an additional trip can earn up to $15 million, the improvement made an important contribution...