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...College’s Admissions and Financial Aid office will cut its travel budget next year by fifty percent, eliminating virtually all non-local high school visits, Dean of Admissions William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said in an interview yesterday. The scale-down—the admissions office’s response to a Faculty of Arts and Sciences-mandated budget cut of 15 percent for all units—comes two years after Harvard announced an end to its Early Admissions program. At the time, Fitzsimmons stressed the office’s commitment to increasing outreach...
...friendship of sorts. In 2000, then-President Putin abrogated the 1995 Gore-Chernomyrdin agreement and renewed arms dealings between Russia and Iran. Since then, Putin has signed a $1 billion arms deal with Iran and supported Iran’s nuclear ambitions. During Putin’s 2007 visit to Tehran, the first trip to the Iranian capital by a Kremlin leader since Joseph Stalin’s visit in 1943, Putin and Iranian President Ahmadinejad discussed Iran’s nuclear energy program...
...first project under the partnership—looking at the use of language by political leaders—was presented to Prime Minister Gordon Brown on his visit to the Kennedy School last year...
...Secretary of State Hillary Clinton makes her first official visit to the Middle East this week, the prospects for peace are bleak. But Shibley Telhami, a professor of political science at the University of Maryland and a leading U.S.-based authority on Arab-Israeli negotiations, tells TIME that a deal remains within reach. Clinching that deal, says Telhami, co-author of a new report on the U.S.'s role in the peace process for the Brookings Institution and the Council on Foreign Relations, requires urgent action by the U.S. because time is running out on the two-state option...
...thousands of German auto workers marched in protest at layoffs in the country's debt-ridden auto industry, the Chinese delegates signed a deal to buy $2.2. billion worth of BMWs and Daimlers. Germany's new Economy Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg told reporters in Berlin that the Chinese visit had "come at the right time...