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...April’s ill-fated “Mather Lather”—the foam party which attracted more than a thousand undergraduates to Mather House’s inadequately-sized dining hall—acts as any indication, Harvard students are looking for more than stimulating classes and enriching extracurricular activities...
...refused to acknowledge: we are involved in a long-term occupation of a country that detests non-Muslim occupiers. He hinted at this once, when he was reminded that he had disputed, as "wildly off the mark," Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki's prewar prediction that "several hundred thousand" troops would be needed to pacify Iraq. Wolfowitz said he took "several" to mean 300,000 or more--the current coalition troop level is approaching 200,000--but, more to the point, he said he had made the comment because "our enemies in the Arab world" were suggesting that...
...refused to acknowledge: we are involved in a long-term occupation of a country that detests non-Muslim occupiers. He hinted at this once, when he was reminded that he had disputed, as "wildly off the mark," Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki's prewar prediction that "several hundred thousand" troops would be needed to pacify Iraq. Wolfowitz said he took "several" to mean 300,000 or more - the current coalition troop level is approaching 200,000--but, more to the point, he said he had made the comment because "our enemies in the Arab world" were suggesting that...
WAGE RAGE Even those who are lucky enough to keep their jobs are seeing their paychecks freeze or, worse yet, shrink. Why are American workers dying the death of a thousand pay cuts...
...Aceh's shores will also carry rice and other vital supplies for civilians. "I'll believe it when I see it," says one 45-year-old village leader, who is too afraid to give his name. We meet in the ramshackle sports hall of Lhokseumawe Polytechnic, where about a thousand refugees (700 of them children) from two villages near Simpang Keramhave sought shelter from a troop buildup in their area. They rely on donations begged from vehicles passing the campus gates...