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That Harvard did not make known the dissolution of SafetyWalk is tragic in itself. This particular blunder, however, is just one symptom of the University’s greater affliction—its over-reliance on students to keep themselves safe. Although students can certainly exercise common sense by walking in groups and avoiding dimly-lit areas, and a student-run program such as SafetyWalk can potentially be beneficial to keep members of the Harvard community secure, the University has a fundamental duty to provide additional safeguards that do not solely rely on students’ own volition...
...against the AIDS virus. As in other countries hit by HIV, the epidemic in China began in the margins of society--among migrant workers, drug users and prostitutes--and then gradually entered the mainstream population. In China this process was facilitated by the government, which, through the tragic mismanagement of its blood-buying program in the early 1990s, permitted blood-collecting practices that ended up contaminating the country's blood supply with HIV. Anyone who gave blood or received a transfusion during that period was at high risk of contracting the virus--and then passing...
...Pashtun heartland. High-ranking Afghan sources tell TIME that the Taliban is trying to unite with the Pashtuns under one leadership. A core of 250 Taliban veterans is recruiting a fresh generation of young zealots from the refugee camps and madrasahs in the Pakistan border tribal areas. Tragic U.S. blunders like these help recruit them. Many Afghans who are not sympathetic to the Taliban are reluctant to help U.S. forces patrol their villages, fearing the Taliban will take revenge once the humvees roll away. "Afghans are sitting on the fence," says Nick Downie, a security coordinator for aid agencies...
Regrettably, taking any of this into account would require an understanding that morality and politics can be complicated, that history is not simply a tale of good (“the West”) versus evil (the tragic samurai, too honorable for their own good). The Last Samurai rejects the obvious third path—the idea that Japanese society could have absorbed the positive elements of Western technology without rejecting its own unique past...
Administrators presented the regulations as one component of several recent MBTA responses to safety concerns ensuing from the tragic events of Sept...