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...killing.) Nor should the force be merely reactive: it should take proactive steps in Darfur to seek out and neutralize the offending Janjaweed militia. But the effort must be led by European nations. Because of the ongoing campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. military is too stretched to spearhead the effort. But the U.S. should still provide funding, intelligence, logistics, and even troops when possible.The U.S. and its European allies cannot wait any longer. The dark shadow of our failure to act on the eve of the Rwandan genocide, and the relative success of former President Bill Clinton?...
...member of Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM), Jamila R. Martin ’07, said that her group intends to spearhead such an effort...
...nation building"-alongside of major combat operations. In a November directive, acting deputy defense secretary Gordon England told his combat commanders around the world to make sure post-combat stability ops are coordinated with the State Department. On Wednesday, Bush formally designated Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to spearhead efforts to rebuild nations following wars or insurrection...
...homeless—numbers that dwarf those that Katrina left devastated in its wake. The moral conundrum as to when to step beyond the bounds of pedagogy and into the realm of philanthropy is undeniably murky, and we recognize that there is no clear test as to when to spearhead relief efforts or other charitable causes.Given this ambiguity, we wrote in October that the administration, in supporting special programs after Katrina, was responding to significant community concern and thus contributing to an environment in which students, faculty, and employees felt that their desires were being acknowledged. We reasoned that...
...cleanup approached its final stages, Watertown created the WADC in January 1997 to spearhead the redevelopment of the complex. After an extensive selection process, the corporation sold the Arsenal to O’Neill Properties, a developer based in King of Prussia, Pa. Because the site still needed a great deal of work, O’Neill paid only $24 million for the complex, making four separate $1 million contributions to Watertown charitable causes in addition to the $20 million purchase price...