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...graduate this year with a Masters in Middle East studies, I look forward to taking on some of this responsibility. I hope to be part of rebuilding Iraq’s universities, which were once the pride of the Arab world. Their ruin in recent years not only means a decline in technical knowledge for Iraqis. It has also deeply undermined the story of their nation...
...Administrators also shed light on what they perceived to be the defects of the grading system at the time. Paul H. Buck, former dean of the Faculty, told The Crimson that a “police-type exam given in great detail” can ruin “brilliant students,” and director of freshman scholarships Wallace MacDonald ’44 added: “Too few students realize that God is not grading their bluebooks...
...that last argument - that cap and trade may place a financial burden on ordinary Americans - that may be the biggest sticking point for Warner-Lieberman or whatever comes after it. Conservative groups like the National Association of Manufacturers have released studies that claim the bill will ruin the American economy by raising the price of energy through the roof. But in reality, that scenario is unlikely - the balance of economic studies, including one by the Environmental Protection Agency, say the bill's economic cost will be manageable, and a raft of studies claim that the economic cost of doing nothing...
...artillery and rocket exchanges flattened much of the market town over the next few days. As 60,000 civilians fled into the bush, others darted into their mud huts to retrieve assault rifles and join the fighting. By its end several days later, much of Abyei was a smoldering ruin. Fighters continued to loot and torch thatched huts in rival areas. The northern army said 21 of its men had been killed. The southerners refused to give a death toll, but the bodies of several of their guerrillas lay in the streets, their boots removed...
Early last year, the bush storyteller Murray Hartin penned a 14-stanza poem in three hours flat. Rain From Nowhere is about a farmer on the brink of ruin who receives an empathetic letter from his father. A celebration of resilience and hope, it is as moving a piece of Australian verse as has been published in decades. It's also pertinent. The driest continent on earth is in the grip of the worst drought in its recorded history. Beginning in 2002 and spanning, at times, the breadth of the country, the dry spell has pushed farmers to the limits...