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...what harm would be done to my “leadership positions” if I skipped town for seven months. There is genuine fear of studying abroad at Harvard—a fear that no institutional changes or innovative study abroad programs can ameliorate without a marked shift in attitude by Harvard’s own students...
...shift rightward affected the more senior Justices on the Court...
...With the help of computer-aided drawings that had been updated to reflect accurate space use in the Houses, the committee members worked to obtain a full understanding of the number of residents each House should be realistically expected to accommodate. Their work will result in a long-term shift in how many people live in each House, even as the total number of students living in the College’s residential system for sophomores, juniors, and seniors will not change. “Our goal is to offer our students the most comfortable housing assignment, given the current...
...from here, including whether or not the police can conduct new searches and call in Kate McCann for another interview. It could take another few weeks, or even months, before any formal charges are made, if they are at all. In the meantime, the McCanns will keep trying to shift the focus away from themselves and back onto the search for their daughter. The world is watching, but it will take more than some new ads to avert its gaze...
...prime achievement the Bush Administration has been touting is the alliance the U.S. has struck up with Sunni tribal sheikhs in Anbar province against al-Qaeda. This is certainly an important tactical advance in confronting the jihadists in Iraq - although it's not entirely clear whether the greater shift has come from the sheikhs (long a backbone of both the Saddam regime and then of the insurgency), or from the U.S. in finally recognizing that the Ba'athists were open to cooperation against al-Qaeda. Although the fighters represented by the Anbar sheikhs made common cause with the jihadists...