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...India, proposed by Sugata Bose, Gardiner professor of oceanic history and affairs and director of the South Asia Initiative. “Students will be offered opportunities to work with NGO’s (non-governmental organizations), initially primarily in Tamilnadu, South India, in the field of post-tsunami reconstruction,” wrote Rena Fonseca, the assistant director of the South Asia Initiative and lecturer in history and literature, in an e-mail, speaking for Bose. Professor of Physics and of Astronomy Christopher W. Stubbs explained that a winning proposal submitted by the Astronomy Department was spurred in part...
...This year's first major news story was the Indian Ocean Tsunami, and now the year is coming to a close after the devastating earthquakes in Kashmir, noted Williams. Between those two catastrophes intervened Hurricane Katrina, revealing both human failings and inspiring tales of human kindness and courage...
...bridge of the M.V. Semlow watching night settle upon the Indian Ocean when he first realized he and his crew were in trouble. The waters off East Africa were unseasonably flat and the Semlow, loaded with 850 tons of rice, food aid for victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami in Somalia, was cutting its way north at a steady 12 knots, some 55 km from the Somali coast. Then, out of the dark, came a burst of gunfire. "I saw the flash of five to 10 shots," says Mahalingam, 58, a short Sri Lankan man with a gray beard...
...statement, Summers also outlined a broader policy on the role of the University in responding to disasters, but he steered clear of promising to directly match donations made by Harvard affiliates to relief causes.In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and last year’s Indian Ocean tsunami, the University matched individual donations made by members of the Harvard community up to $100. But in the letter, Summers made no such pledge for future relief efforts. Instead, he wrote that the University’s “primary and most important response” would be to encourage students...
...December 1 the world will be tacitly consenting to an additional million or so deaths,” Owais Siddiqui ’07 added. Huma Farid ’06, who organized the event, said the media response was insufficient in comparison to Hurricane Katrina and the tsunami that hit the region last December. “People don’t know that over 80,000 people have died, that over 70,000 people are injured, that children are being operated on without anesthesia, that people don’t have food and shelter and other such basic...