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...Supreme Court reporter for the New York Times, recalls that when she was a student at Radcliffe, the overpowering fact was numbers: “…there were four Harvard men to every one of us. So we were told that we really were quite special, that it was much harder to get into Radcliffe than into Harvard, and that consequently, we were smarter and better prepared and so on. Yet, on the other hand, not one of the postgraduate fellowships was open to us: the Rhodes, the Marshall, the Sheldon. It wasn’t even...
...this special day, I wish to congratulate Drew Gilpin Faust on her inauguration as Harvard University President. Today, academic institutions like Harvard must grapple with the complex and ever-shifting nature of global change. In particular, we must ask and answer what the university’s role should be in meeting the pressing issues of our uncertain...
...have depth.”The Lafayette offense is not without strengths however. Featuring more of a pro-style attack, it relies on its offensive line and standout receiver Shaun Adair to make plays.Adair, who leads the team with 23 catches for 301 yards, has also won a special teams player of the week award when he returned three punts for 111 yards and a touchdown. His playmaking skills have caught the attention of the Harvard defensive backfield.“One of the best receivers we’re going to face this year is Shaun Adair...
Since fleeing to Paris last February, Nur has repeated the same message to President Bush's special envoy for Sudan, Andrew Natsios; French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner; and the former U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson. A steady stream of leading diplomats has met with Nur to plead with him to attend international peace talks with Sudan's government. "Everybody has been to see him, anybody who thinks they can have any influence whatsoever," says a European aid worker, who asked not to be named. "People are really, really, really trying to persuade him." That's because the mass killing...
...still fight the Americans are surely among the new militias - as they are in the police and army. But deputizing them allows the Americans to gather personal information, take fingerprints and track their whereabouts for a least part of the time. The volunteers sign three-month contracts, wear only special armbands instead of uniforms and use their own weapons, but they get paid three-quarters of what Iraqi police recruits receive and are given preference for joining the police and army. "It gives them a stake in the system. It's really the first step to becoming IP [Iraqi Police...