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Everyone could see one another on a three-way split screen...
...when Conti-Brown agreed to pitch in with his wealthier roommates to help outfit their new dorm room in Grays, he was surprised when his roommates came back with a $600 coach. Even split among the five roommates, the expense would wipe out most of Conti-Brown’s bank account, which had about $200 in it. Conti-Brown hadn’t even thought about other expenses—like textbooks—yet. “What was I supposed to do?” Conti-Brown says, “Say, ‘sorry guys...
...Africa and a major recipient of U.S. military aid, invaded Somalia to depose a radical Islamist regime, and Ethiopia received significant U.S. logistical support as the operation unfolded. But today the East African nation--indeed, the whole Horn of Africa--is again in chaos. Ethiopia and Eritrea, which split from Ethiopia in 1993, are on the verge of war (they fought a bitter conflict from 1998 to 2000), and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer has said that she is considering naming Eritrea a state sponsor of terrorism. Somalia itself is in the grip...
...Scott R. Vautour ’10, started training for the Fed Challenge approximately two weeks into this school year. The team met two to three times a week for several hours each meeting in preparation for the event. According to Motley, the monetary prize will be split between the members of the team, the Harvard Fed Challenge organization, and the economics department. The five members of the group, plus team coordinator Stephanie H. Lo ’10, will get $15,000 of the prize. The Fed Challenge is an economics competition sponsored by the Federal Reserve. Fed Chairman...
...joke. But that unguarded comment offered a rare glimpse at the split that has opened up between Bush and his hard-line Veep. Since 2001, Cheney has been against just the kind of U.S. involvement in Arab-Israeli affairs that Bush is embracing, arguing that the early creation of a Palestinian state could jeopardize Israel's security. And the peace talks are part of a larger trend. In the past two years, Bush has negotiated with the North Koreans over their nuclear weapons and offered the Iranians incentives to talk about their nuclear ambitions, sometimes directly overruling Cheney...