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...Kenya over the summer, was forced to cancel her trip because she could not obtain funding through the Office of Career Services (OCS). According to OCS policy, travel in countries on the State Department’s list is not eligible for Harvard funding. “I understand the OCS’s motives, but at the same time it is disheartening,” said Nowak, who added she would have traveled to Kenya if she could have obtained funding. The violence has sparked concern among colleges with study abroad programs in the country, including three Harvard-approved...
...Odinga has demanded that the international community apply sanctions to force Kibaki out of power (or at least to countenance another election), unilateral U.S. involvement in the situation should be limited to basic humanitarian aid. The African Union and Kenya’s neighbors are far better positioned to understand the intricacies of the situation and mediate an acceptable political compromise. Already these countries have shown their willingness to do so; several African presidents including Ghanaian President and African Union chairman John Kufuor have gone to Kenya to attempt to make peace or at least ameliorate the situation. This week...
...knows the mosque leaders well and has met almost daily with them since arriving. "When you meet him you know he's a holy man," he says of the blind imam in the nearby mosque. "The government is not coming here," says Cook. "You can't help but understand their desperation. If we don't stay here to help and maintain the infrastructure there is going to be no sustained progress...
...again. Well, there was simply no way I would permit anybody to pass me, and I put on the speed and left John behind. I always remember looking behind at John, who was absolutely desperate to try and defeat me on this hill, and I really couldn't understand it. Here was the leader of the expedition, the big wheel, why should he be so desperately keen to beat someone who was a great deal younger than he was? I was physically strong back then, and I acclimatized well, and I had quite a competitive spirit. Technically...
...They were wrong (twice) about Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.) when they thought he could never win Iowa and then thought he could never lose New Hampshire. They were wrong about Senator Hillary Clinton’s (D-N.Y.) ability to rebound after Iowa. They failed to understand former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee’s surge. They have pretty much been wrong about the entire process...