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...withdraw official recognition of the program in the 1960s. Beginning in 1969, Harvard students who wanted to enroll in ROTC had to trek to Kendall Square to train and to take ROTC courses at MIT. Harvard does not give degree credit for these courses, nor does it provide financial support for ROTC programs. The College’s current Student Handbook outlines Harvard’s official stance on the issue, as well as its reasons for not recognizing the program. “Current federal policy of excluding known lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals from admission to ROTC...
...quantifiable standard, the city is on life support. Detroit's treasury is $300 million short of the funds needed to provide the barest municipal services. The school system, which six years ago was compelled by the teachers' union to reject a philanthropist's offer of $200 million to build 15 small, independent charter high schools, is in receivership. The murder rate is soaring, and 7 out of 10 remain unsolved. Three years after Katrina devastated New Orleans, unemployment in that city hit a peak of 11%. In Detroit, the unemployment rate is 28.9%. That's worth spelling out: twenty-eight...
...ably satisfying the wishes of the auto industry - by encouraging southeastern Michigan's reliance on this single, lumbering mastodon - Dingell has in fact played a signal role in destroying Detroit. He was hardly alone; if you wanted to get elected in southeastern Michigan, you had to support the party line dictated by the Big Four - GM, Ford, Chrysler and their co-conspirator the United Auto Workers. Anything that might limit the industry's income was bad for the auto industry, and anything bad for the auto industry was deemed dangerous to Detroit...
...American companies. For now, the standard will focus on agriculture and forestry projects, with expectations that it will grow to cover Chinese transportation, power and manufacturing. "We think that Chinese companies are very aware of their greenhouse-gas emissions and climate change and that they're keen to support a voluntary carbon-reduction initiative in China," says David Ralpin, a BlueNext official. (See pictures of China's infrastructure boom...
...nuclear issue or by blaming foreign powers for the antiregime protests." For that reason, the official shares Moisi's view that domestic unrest in Iran is more likely to weaken Tehran's defiance of international calls to end its uranium-enrichment program than it is to rally support. And at the end of the day, he notes, any contrast between Obama and Sarkozy is strictly a matter of style...