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...Tuesday, police had restored calm to the streets of the Kabul. But as Afghans came out to survey the damage, many were asking where the foreign troops were when they needed them. NATO peacekeepers offered support to the Afghan army and police during the riots, but local authorities thought their presence might spark more violence. "There were no American soldiers on the street. They stood back and let the rioters loot. People say the Russians were better because they did more for the people," said Fahor, a 35-year-old shopkeeper in downtown Kabul. If the Americans can't even...
...rapporteur on violence against women, on a fact-finding mission to investigate the suicides. Some 70 women die in honor killings in Turkey every year, mostly in the southeast, women's groups say. The real figure may be higher - in remote villages, deaths can often go unrecorded. A survey in southeast Turkey last year found nearly 40% of mostly male respondents said a woman guilty of adultery should be killed. And violence against women is still widely tolerated in Turkey. A prominent M.P. from the ruling Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party (akp) recently made headlines for beating his wife...
...Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 and Director of Athletics Robert L. Scalise have clogged undergraduates’ inboxes, each in its own way begging students to fill out their online CUE evaluations. And while the Committee on Undergraduate Education’s (CUE) survey is far from perfect, students should heed the unending flow of admonitions. The CUE survey may need some tweaking, but it largely continues to be useful in helping students choose their courses. Students’ participation, however, constitutes only half of a successful evaluation process, and if the CUE Guide...
Despite the drama over the president’s pay, Summers still remains one of the lowest earners among Ivy League chiefs. His salary ranked sixth among the eight Ivy presidents in a 2005 survey conducted by the Chronicle of Higher Education...
...eternal optimist in me saying that the class could have always been worse, but I never skewer the bad classes I take, or at least not in quite the way I intend to before faced with bubbles to fill.Looking at the nine-page “Senior Survey,” a CUE guide for the entire Harvard experience, I promised myself I would be more objective. I would complain about all the minor annoyances and real aggravations that marred my time at Harvard. And having taken an hour out of my reading period work schedule to procrastinate by answering...