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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...service was up and running last night, according to its director Marco B. Simons '97, who said in a telephone interview yesterday that last week's postering campaign, a message on the harvard general newsgroup and a Crimson article provoked the sudden revival...

Author: By Leigh S. Salsberg, | Title: New Volunteers Save Safety Walk | 10/24/1995 | See Source »

Between the central U.N. and the agencies, examples of misused funds are all too easy to find. Last year the UNICEF office in Kenya had to be greatly expanded to cope with a sudden flood of refugees from Somalia and from a local drought. The agency pumped in $37 million, of which $10 million was found by a later audit to have been unaccounted for. During the height of the U.N. intervention in Somalia, U.N. agencies were spending $1 million a day to maintain their peacekeeping operations in the country, much of it devoted to elaborate support facilities in Mogadishu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DRAINING THE SWAMP | 10/23/1995 | See Source »

...fulfill a crucial mission, the tendency has been to form another outfit. Thus there are four U.N. agencies concerned with food production and seven with industrial development in the Third World. Emergency situations sharply highlight the resulting problems of duplication and overlap. Consider a not-very-hypothetical situation: a sudden flood of refugees. The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) might build camps to house them. But WHO would want something to say about their health problems. One or more of the food agencies might consider feeding them to be its job. And since some of the refugees would surely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DRAINING THE SWAMP | 10/23/1995 | See Source »

Many on the council attribute the sudden change in leadership to the impact of the Progressive Undergraduate Council Coalition (PUCC), a group launched last spring which is dedicated to reforming the council and redefining its agenda...

Author: By Andrew A. Green, | Title: Council Elections Unsettle Old Guard | 10/17/1995 | See Source »

When I first arrived at Harvard as a transfer student, I was given a key to New Quincy room 305. I entered the suite expectantly, surveyed the large, open and dusty common room, and climbed the stairs, Bedroom A was occupied. As was bedroom B, C and D. A sudden sense of discomfort gripped me. Where, then, was I to live? "In the common room, I guess," was the answer I got from Scott, one of my new roommates. And so for ten days, I slept on a bed in the common room, with no furniture, no privacy...

Author: By David H. Goldbrenner, | Title: Good Walls, Good Neighbors | 10/17/1995 | See Source »

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