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Harvard has made progress in strengthening the arts despite a year-long vacancy in the associate provost position, as University President Drew G. Faust created a University-wide arts task force last fall and secured a $30 million gift dedicated to the arts this spring...
Since that April temblor, the governors of Illinois and Missouri have formed task forces to assess earthquake preparedness. "We know we're racing with time to get our communities prepared," says Jim Wilkinson, executive director of the Central United States Earthquake Consortium. One of the things the state commissions are likely to discuss is whether to follow the lead of Kentucky, which requires companies that sell homeowners insurance to offer earthquake insurance without question. In the meantime, however, State Farm, the nation's leading home insurer, has imposed a 30-day moratorium on new earthquake-insurance policies in much...
...None of this makes Cowen's task any easier. He will now report back to the leaders at their October summit with either a road map charting a way out of the mess or a confirmation that another vote is pointless and the treaty must be declared dead...
...Shalit for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. Once Shalit is freed, says Israeli negotiator Amos Gilad, Israel will then agree to allow the reopening of Rafah, the main crossing between Gaza and Egypt, as long as it is manned by European Union monitors. Egypt will also undertake the near-impossible task of stopping arms from being smuggled into Gaza; Israelis are worried, with good reason, that Hamas will use the truce to rearm itself with longer-range and more accurate missiles...
...designed to fight the deeper roots of hunger. (Within the U.N. that task falls to other agencies, like the Food and Agriculture Organization and the U.N. Development Program.) But WFP can help. Its Food for Assets plan gives rations to displaced persons in northern Uganda who work to build and run local fish farms. Procurement officers can buy locally at above-market prices if they show that it helps to develop the country's agriculture. And, across the world, WFP feeds about 20 million schoolchildren each year. That service is designed both to help students concentrate in class...