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According to Shi, Red Cross waived almost all the administrative and supply fees, and the Boston University Fitness and Recreation Center lent 31 mannequins. In the end, total costs amounted to $700, which was covered by a grant from the Undergraduate Council...
...Everyone was so supportive of our efforts because the idea behind it is very meaningful,” Shi said...
...This event carries on the spirit of voluntarism, which really embodied Peter and his work at Harvard,” said Meicheng Shi ’10, co-president of the Harvard Friends of the American Red Cross. “It was very difficult for us because on the day he passed away, we were supposed to meet that afternoon to organize this very event,” Shi said...
...country's fragile security is also being tested by the increasingly frayed relationship and mutual suspicions harbored by the anti-insurgent, largely Sunni Sons of Iraq (SOI) groups and the predominantly Shi'ite government. The U.S. military transferred control of the SOIs to the central government in October. The government has been slow to fulfill its pledge to incorporate 20% of Baghdad's 54,000 SOIs into the armed forces, further frustrating anti-insurgent leaders who want more of their men given security jobs. At the same time, domestic politicking is set to intensify ahead of provincial polls slated...
There were conflicting reports about the nature and number of attacks in Kasra, which is part of the mixed Sunni and Shi'ite district of Khadamiya. The district's police chief issued a statement saying that there were twin car bombs. The Interior Ministry had a different view. In the first blast, the ministry said a car bomb planted in or near a mini-bus ferrying schoolgirls exploded. It was rapidly followed by a suicide bombing targeting onlookers rushing to help, according to an Interior Ministry official. The estimates numbered the dead from 25 to 31, with some 70 people...