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...what was going on. By the time local security forces and reinforcements from neighboring republics regained control, the city of 250,000 bore all the grim scars of urban warfare: bodies sprawled on sidewalks, in back alleys and outside apartment blocks and official buildings. Kids roamed the streets collecting shell casings. "We never thought this would happen here," says Anastasia Zaitseva, whose workplace, a hotel opposite the Federal Security Service (fsb) headquarters, was on the front line. "We always believed this tragedy would pass us by." Instead, the persistent insurgency in the North Caucasus keeps spreading - and what began...
...Harvard’s choice to focus on domestic relief efforts while ignoring graver crises elsewhere. Even with its $25.9 billion endowment, of course, Harvard can’t respond to every cataclysmic event. And it shouldn’t. Alumni donors never gave University administrators carte blanche to shell out cash whenever and wherever they see fit. Harvard’s comparative advantage is in education. Here in Cambridge, Kennedy School professors are training government officials in emergency-management techniques, and Design School students have drawn blueprints for tsunami-resistant houses. Clearly, it would not be in the global...
...field trip that year, I popped it in, and a bus filled with high-schoolers settled back to recapture their youth. While the theme song remained catchy (They’re the world’s most fearsome fighting team/They’re the heroes on the half-shell and they’re green!), we had a rude awakening soon after: the show was awful. Some other undergrads shared their own favorite cartoons from bygone years. Sophia P. Snyder ‘07 I didn’t watch T.V. – I wasn?...
...place more importance on freedom than equality." Younger Germans seem to like the absence of ideological baggage that is typical of the new politicians. But the same lack of engagement means that some don't bother to vote or to become involved in politics at all. In the 2002 Shell Youth Study, which its authors say still holds true today, only 34% of respondents under 25 said they had any interest at all in political affairs. That is down from 57% of the same age group in the early 1990s. Says Hensel, the author from East Berlin: "With Fischer...
Jamal Abu Samhadana meets visitors in a narrow first-floor room in the Gaza Strip town of Rafah, in a dwelling lit only by a small, battery-powered fluorescent strip. He proffers a misshapen right hand for a shake. Shrapnel from an Israeli tank shell broke Abu Samhadana's forearm in 2001. His hand looks caved in, his wrist bends grotesquely and his skin is unnaturally smooth and hairless, as though the limbs had been melted. For a tough guy like Abu Samhadana, such disfigurements are badges of authenticity. "Luckily," he says, "I shoot with my left hand...