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...they err in this regard, general education will amount to nothing but a shiny new set of hoops through which each undergraduate must joylessly jump. But they have the power to improve on the current system’s frustrating inflexibility, even if it is too late to save the whole curricular review...
...organized daily rallies in Harvard Yard. After two participating students had been hospitalized, the leaders abruptly ended this ritualistic nine-day forced-starvation last Friday, citing that the University had consented to “two key student demands.” In a vain attempt to save face, SLAM greeted these so-called concessions—to audit AlliedBarton and subsequently to meet about labor practices—with exultation...
...victims of the Sept. 20 attack. It remains unclear whether Pappas received any treatment. But one of his subordinates, intelligence analyst Armin Cruz, who was later accused of abuse at Abu Ghraib, specifically cited the Sept. 20 mortar attack at his plea bargain. Cruz, who struggled unsuccessfully to save the life of a fellow soldier wounded in the attack, claimed he had repeatedly sought and failed to receive treatment for shell shock in its aftermath. At his sentencing, a military judge asked Cruz to explain why he had forced prisoners to strip naked. After a long pause, Cruz said...
...uncouthly, also known as the President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko. On a tense New Year's Eve night a week earlier, Medvedev forced Lukashenko to accept a price hike that more than doubled the cost of natural gas, from $46 to $100 per 1,000 cu m. To save his economy from collapse, Lukashenko caved, after having dug in his heels for years: he also sold 50% of his national gas-pipeline operator Beltransgaz to Gazprom...
...Arab countries have reason to celebrate these latest findings. Save The Children puts Iraq at the bottom of the list, with a 150% increase in the child mortality rate since 1990. Most alarmingly, the report finds that in 2005 alone about 122,000 Iraqi children died before the age of five, about half of them perishing during their first month of life...