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...Gulf Coast, Harvard has chosen to value lives in Louisiana and Mississippi above those in Pakistan and India. This is not the University’s first attempt to play the role of freelance philanthropist. In September 2001, Harvard pledged $1 million to fund scholarships for the children of terror victims. It matched $245,877 in donations by Harvard affiliates after last December’s massive tsunami. But if Harvard wants to get the biggest bang for its charitable buck, the University should focus its philanthropic efforts on the oft-ignored humanitarian crises that pass...
...Taliban is back on the boil and U.S. casualties are mounting. So the same choppers are needed for combat missions back in Afghanistan, too. Says one Kabul-based U.S. official, "We've sliced away some of our capacity in Afghanistan. So far, it hasn't impeded the war on terror-but it will if it goes past another ten days...
...from the rubble. It appeared that the boy, Nawfiz Shah, suffered only mild injuries on his face and hands. But when I visited him the following day, living in a tent with his mother, I learned that Nawfiz was still so traumatized that after first crying out in terror at "the darkness," he had then stopped speaking altogether. His mother cannot tell whether Nawfiz understood when she told him that his older brother had died, entombed in the same school...
...better times, of a future where we might lie in the sun for a few days or weeks, of a blissful state that has now vanished. We lost not only a resort and nearly 200 lives and our sense of safety amid a world at war against terror. Also gone is our belief that somewhere, out there, was a place that was free of all this violence and hatred. Paradise wasn't lost. It was bombed out of existence...
...problems. Congressional staffers will start working this week to hammer out an agreement on a controversial defense-spending bill that passed last week. The Senate version includes a provision, adamantly opposed by the White House, that limits how the military can interrogate prisoners captured in the war on terror. The House version didn't include that provision, and lawmakers there don't want to send Bush a bill he has promised to veto. But senators, particularly Arizona's John McCain, have been insistent on the provision staying the bill, setting up a fight with the White House...