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...rusted over," says Ellen Levinson, executive director of the Washington-based Alliance for Food Aid. African nations' own policies have also been inadequate. In 2002, African Union leaders vowed to spend 10% of their annual budgets on agricultural development; few of the 53 member nations have consistently met that target. "We have been warning of the dangers for a long time," says Simon Scott, head of statistics for the OECD, which has tracked how several African countries have gone from being food exporters in the 1980s to relying heavily on foreign food aid today. In short, the world is suddenly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food Prices: Hunger Strikes | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

...moves to increase spending came after Harvard failed to spend five percent of its endowment in nine of the last ten years, missing a threshold that tax-exempt institutions outside of higher education are legally required to meet and that University officials say is their target...

Author: By Christian B. Flow and Kevin Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Facing Scrutiny, Harvard To Up Spending | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...other law school news, Kagan announced this week that the Law School had raised over $450 million in its capital campaign, intended to finance an ambitious agenda that includes new buildings, an expanded faculty, and more generous financial aid programs. The five-year campaign, which had a target of $400 million and was launched in the summer of 2003, is the largest fundraising drive in the history of legal education. —Staff writer Kevin Zhou can be reached at kzhou@fas.harvard.edu...

Author: By Kevin Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Stanford Law Ends Grades | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...smoke-filled, vinyl seated bar and cafe on the ground floor of a crumbling apartment block has been a gathering place for the hard line Serbs who want to keep ethnic-Albanians out of their enclave. Its position on the front line has made La Dolce Vita the target of bomb attacks against Serbs by ethnic Albanians (nine people were injured here in 2006), and also a bully pulpit for anti-Western tirades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Almost Mellow at Kosovo's Front-Line Cafe | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...pages during their final year at Harvard. This year’s Commencement will mark the fourth anniversary of former President Ronald Reagan’s death from complications of pneumonia. But twenty-five years ago, he was the most powerful man in the world, and the frequent target of Crimson editorialists. 1983’s staff positions read like a rap sheet, chronicling the paper’s disapproval of Reagan’s supply-side economics and aggressive foreign policy. Meanwhile, the practice of Apartheid persisted in South Africa and spilled into Cambridge, raising questions of divestment...

Author: By Daniel E. Herz-roiphe, Ronald K. Kamdem, James M. Larkin, Ramya Parthasarathy, and Jessica A. Sequeira | Title: A Note from the Editorial Board | 6/2/2008 | See Source »

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