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...Over the past week, several colleges across the country have scrapped plans to send students to Mexico. The University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire announced it would nix a six-week summer program scheduled to start in Mexico on May 26, giving the 23 enrolled students a chance to visit Costa Rica instead; Boston's Suffolk University canceled a program slated to start in June. Meanwhile, on Tuesday, the University of Minnesota announced it was encouraging its 21 students currently studying in Mexico to return...
...ADMINSTRATIONThough the increase in student support is encouraging, SLAM has heard little in response from the Harvard Administration. Though five SLAM representatives met with President Drew Faust during her office hours last week, they are unsure if their meeting will have an effect. Earlier this month, students visited the Harvard Management Company in Boston and requested a meeting to discuss layoffs. SLAM representatives were able to meet with the HMC earlier this year, and found their discussion productive. Their most recent trip did not end as fruitfully; the HMC had changed its visitor policy such that all appointments required arrangements...
...Matthew Scully’s beautiful book Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy and began to wonder if our meat-production system merely sanitized and institutionalized the cruelty I had seen in Vietnam. Increasingly unsettled, I made a fateful decision to visit a slaughterhouse...
...Pakistani government and the Taliban. Three broken cease-fires and thousands of deaths later, the two sides are no closer to resolving their quarrel over control of the disputed territory. In the past year alone, Taliban fighters have attacked NATO supply convoys, the Sri Lankan cricket team on its visit to Lahore, and Pakistani outposts in the region...
...Administration's open hostility to the "axis of evil" and seeking to improve relations severed after the Iranian revolution in 1979, Obama told the Iranian regime last month that the U.S. was seeking "engagement that is honest and grounded in mutual respect." (See pictures from Ahmadinejad's controversial 2007 visit to New York...