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...scholarship on contemporary South Asia. Similar deficiencies lie in the availability of grants, research, and study abroad opportunities—all of which many Harvard students seek, according to a 2005 survey conducted by the South Asian Studies Initiative, an advocacy group at Harvard which aims to increase the size and scope of South Asian studies here.Most striking is the dearth of faculty when compared to Harvard’s peer institutions, especially those in the Ivy League. Including non-tenured faculty members, FAS currently has a total of 17 professors under the aegis of what we could broadly call...
...Bosch says he “will be begging all of my roommates to bid on me.” In addition to rallying their friends, box-makers hope to entice cafeteria-goers with their creative, attractive boxes. “We had one that was an almost life-size collage of themselves,” says Eliot HoCo co-chair Lauren E. Jones ’07. “I think that would probably be the wackiest we’ve had.” Bosch’s decorations will be photographs, but not devoid of wackiness...
...potential detail is left unrevealed—from manager Brian Epstein’s hat size (7 and 3/8) to the fact that George Harrison “reposition[ed] [his] furniture for maximum sunlight and serenity” after becoming Ravi Shankar’s disciple in India...
...Lego-like Furniture These award-winning tables and cabinets, by London-based designer Olivier Droillard, are assembled from multicolored fiberboard boxes with drawers and lids that can be stacked to suit your living space. Choose from suggested combinations or take creative control by nominating the size and height of the pieces, as well as the finish and function of each box. Just don't forget which one you left your keys in. olivierandco.com
...troops in Afghanistan enough? More troops could be put to good use: NATO has 16,000 soldiers in Kosovo, which is less than 2% the size of Afghanistan. But with major contributing countries already stretched in Iraq, Kosovo and Lebanon, a big infusion of new soldiers is not realistic. So the Riga horse-trading will concentrate on a related problem: that commanders often can't deploy existing troops as they would like because of national limits-or "caveats"-on their use. U.S., British, Canadian and Dutch troops are doing most of the frontline fighting; support from many of the other...