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...which coordinates assistance for disabled students. Personalized agreements will help ensure that a student’s specific needs will be addressed from the get go and kept on file so that students do not have to rehash old battles.For students to get proper accommodation, however, it is also vital that they be upfront about their needs. Many students are reluctant to disclose information about their condition, sometimes out of a healthy desire not to be defined by their disability, but sometimes also because they feel pressure to hide weakness. The AEO and Harvard must foster a culture in which...
Benazir Bhutto's assassination is a body blow to the troubled but strategically vital state of Pakistan. It removes from the scene a secular, liberal, pro-Western leader. It gives momentum to Pakistan's jihadis in their campaign to Talibanize the country, and it edges Pakistan closer toward Islamic revolution. Her death is also, of course, a tragedy for her family, including the three children she leaves motherless. But the horror of Bhutto's end should not blind us to her mediocre legacy, and it is misleading to depict her as any sort of martyr for freedom and democracy...
...from democracy, but revenge is on the minds of Bhutto's supporters. Their rage is directed not at her presumed assassins - al-Qaeda-linked Islamic extremists from the lawless tribal areas along the northern border with Afghanistan - but at President Pervez Musharraf, a man the Bush Administration deems a vital ally...
...game for Harvard were the few minutes on either side of half time. The Crimson closed out the first half with an 11-4 run that gave the team a comfortable 10-point cushion at the break. Freshman Christine Matera came off the bench to hit two vital 3-pointers during that stretch. Harvard started the second half the same way it finished the first, scoring the half’s opening seven points, and the Crimson maintained the high intensity level for the rest of the game. Even on the bench, the Harvard players were jumping up and down...
...fair use with a piece of software is quixotic and shortsighted. There’s still no way to loan Amazon e-books to friends, borrow them from libraries, photocopy sections of them for a class, or sell a used copy, rights which have for hundreds of years been vital to the success of the real book...