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...jointly hold 14 different events focusing on finding a job in the public sector, said Mount. These resources for Harvard students have not always been so prominent. Nick B. Manske ’09, currently working with the U.S. Diplomatic Service, remembers that during his tenure at Harvard, support and campus recruiting for government sector jobs were less available than similar resources for the private sector, “but it was there if you looked for it.” Manske recalled having to look outside Harvard and contact a U.S. Diplomat-in-Residence at Tufts University to receive...
...that the economic downturn will keep lesser-known authors from publishing due to higher fees that may be implemented to offset costs, according to John Saylor, an associate librarian at Cornell. “We’ve just about hit the ceiling on what universities are able to support in terms of subscription costs, especially with the current recession,” Dartmouth Associate Librarian Elizabeth E. Kirk said. “Each time a university library cancels a journal, that university community loses access to that scholarship.” Despite tighter budgets at universities across the country...
...capacity to build nuclear weapons under the cover of its civilian atomic-energy program. Although a new round of talks between Iran and the main international players has been scheduled for Oct. 1, the Administration is not anticipating a diplomatic breakthrough and is at the same time seeking support for new sanctions aimed at pressing Iran to cease uranium enrichment. Russia just last week reiterated that it opposes new sanctions...
Given the link drawn by Obama, soon after he took office, between Russian cooperation on Iran and the missile-defense plan, it's hard not to read the shelving of the missile shield as at least partly a move to enlist Russian support on Iran. It's not at all certain, however, that such support will be forthcoming. Moscow does not believe Iran is currently pursuing nuclear weapons, and its adversarial relationship with Washington will be maintained as long as the likes of Ukraine and Georgia are being considered for NATO membership. Critics in Washington are already accusing Obama...
Russia The Kremlin did not immediately give an official reaction, but not surprisingly, senior Russian officials expressed support for the move. "It's like having a decomposing corpse in your flat, and then the undertaker comes and takes it away," said Dmitry Rogozin, Russia's ambassador to NATO, according to the BBC. "This means we're getting rid of one of those niggling problems which prevented us from doing the real work...