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...think Harvard, it being a player in terms of international collections, feels it’s just an important thing to do—to help strengthen the Iraqi libraries in this very difficult time and situation in which they find themselves,” Horrell said...
...look to the countries where the U.S. has enforced embargoes and those with which we have traded freely. It is hard not to think that trade must have something to do with why, for example, we have better relations with China than Cuba. Furthermore, raising these incomes tends to strengthen governments, who can then make the transition to paying their civil servants well and establishing better institutions. With greater decentralization of production and more and more personalization of products, it is also harder for one nation to dominate an industry wholesale. Indeed, trade often forces old industries to reinvent themselves...
...step in with decisive influence. But the Bush team is still debating how to proceed. European allies and State Department Middle East hands argue that Washington should swing into action boldly, pushing for a full range of talks on all the thorny issues. They say the best way to strengthen moderate Palestinian leaders is for the U.S. to be clear about what the Palestinians will get if they make peace. Last June, an official involved tells TIME, Qurei and other top officials met quietly with National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice in Berlin to push for progress toward Palestinian statehood. "They...
...want to really strengthen the interactions with our community partners,” said Natsui, who has held PBHA office before and has directed the group’s Summer Urban Program, “everyone from the participants in our programs to our adult ESL students to children’s parents, as well as community organization leaders and other activists...
...committee’s primary motivation in making this recommendation is that “students also receive a great deal of advice from one another, particularly from older students who can tell them about the experience of being in particular courses or concentrations.” Continuing to strengthen the Prefect Program, with the aim of someday converting it into a system of upperclass residential advisors, will accomplish this goal and preserve the best parts of Yard life as it is now: close bonding with other class members and the luxury to choose a blocking group across first-year...