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...snowstorm that just breezed through Boston has served to remind many people of last week’s storm that wasn’t. Most Harvardians breathed a sigh of relief when the widely predicted blizzard—supposed to dump over a foot of snow on the city—failed to materialize; some students (i.e., those without a car) even felt cheated when all the hype amounted to was less than one inch of the white stuff...
Complaining about inaccurate forecasts may seem harmless and not worth writing about. However, such behavior can have real consequences, since pressure from the public sometimes takes scientists out of the vacuum in which they should be working. Knowing that they will be harshly criticized if a storm is worse than expected, for example, meteorologists often hedge their bets and forecast the direst possible scenario—absolving themselves of blame at the cost of knowingly withholding their real best guesses...
After its last contest at Rivier was postponed due to inclement weather, the Harvard men’s volleyball team was forced to endure a different kind of storm on Saturday, as a torrent of Tiger hits and kills proved to be too much for the Crimson...
...conditions for a perfect storm of anti-U.S. feeling have risen, according to Samina Ahmed, director for the International Crisis Group in Islamabad. "What we're seeing is a nexus between an irresponsible media, the mullahs and the military, which is using anti-Americanism to beat a weak civilian government on the head," she says. Ahmed suggests that while the Obama Administration may need the generals' support in the fight against the Taliban and al-Qaeda - who have sanctuaries inside Pakistan's tribal territories - it should not falter in trying to prop up the country's civil institutions. Otherwise...
Pakistan has long been characterized as a country whose rulers may be pro-American but whose people are decidedly not. In 1979, for example, Pakistani radio falsely reported that U.S. aircraft bombed Islam's holiest site in Mecca, prompting a mob to storm the U.S. embassy in Islamabad, killing five American and Pakistani staffers. This simmering hostility was stirred again after the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001 and boiled over, more recently, with drone missile strikes inside Pakistan's tribal territory in which dozens of suspected terrorists - and civilians - died. The Feb. 3 conviction in New York...