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This is a dangerous time for Harvard. We are faced with the opportunity to finally cure a disease that has attacked our University’s system for far too long. The right cure would strike at the root of the problem—not just its current symptoms. Only a sadistic doctor would instruct his tuberculosis patient to stop antibiotic treatment as soon as the disease’s symptoms have subsided. Partial treatment of tuberculosis allows for much more virulent, life-threatening strains to emerge years later. Likewise, a solution that reduces the symptoms of today?...
...according to Committee Member Nancy Walser, Segat was having a root canal...
...archetype, and this should be the part that makes him an authentic star. He's a little bit handsome, a little bit funny, a little bit smart, a little bit cool--but not too much any of those things, which means he's easy to take to heart and root...
...Already, some Mazar residents are muttering that the Taliban, as a united and centralized government, got some things right. Former judge Maulavi Mohammed Afzal says, "The root of their control was just terror?they would kill five people at a time without trial?but some people did support and admire them because they did cut crime." Aid workers are already finding the post-Taliban regime more cumbersome to deal with: they need to negotiate with several different commanders to get anything done. "They are like small businesses," says Linda van Weyenburg of M?decins Sans Fronti?res. "Everything becomes more complicated...
...volume of naval history that remains today the definitive work in its field. And yet he could not shake his disdain for an institution that despite its resources had produced only one of the three men most prominent in American colonialism—Secretary of War (later State) Elihu Root, Philippines Governor (later President) William Howard Taft and Governor of Cuba Gen. Leonard Wood...