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...Many military officers have complained that Washington has failed to keep its focus on the fight in Afghanistan. But that attitude may be changing. "We cannot let the success in Afghanistan slip away," Gates told reporters on Wednesday, adding that he would be "very sympathetic" if more forces were recommended...
...lofty tax scale already leaves average workers feeling their hard work is being penalized, and raising taxes could slow consumption, a main motor of French economic growth. But as in any good domestic spat, Hollande wasn't going to let his partner have the last word: He retorted Wednesday by noting the right's tax cuts had largely favored the wealthy to justify reiterating his pledge to reverse them. He tried to soften that blow - but only made his squeeze look ill-informed - by noting that the resulting increases would only effect around 200,000 people whose monthly take-home...
...Undergraduate Council (UC) voted Wednesday night to press Harvard administrators to help shoulder computer printing fees and set up a loan system for the electronic response devices used in science lectures.The move is the latest development in the UC’s Hidden Cost Campaign, an ongoing effort to reduce the numerous small charges that Harvard undergraduates face.The council called on faculty departments to loan the classroom devices—known as Personal Response Systems (PRS) clickers—to students enrolled in their courses. Undergraduates would only have to pay the $43 cost if they did not return...
...more U.S. goods. Americans, on the other hand, will buy more domestic products, as imports will become more expensive. Feldstein called the U.S. trade deficit “enormous,” but said he believes that the savings rate will rise. A U.N. economic report released on Wednesday warned that as the U.S. trade and budget deficits continue to widen, “confidence in the dollar as the world’s main reserve currency could erode rapidly.” Gernot Doppelhofer, a university lecturer and fellow of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge, wrote...
Juliette N. Kayyem ’91, a lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), was appointed Undersecretary of Homeland Defense for Massachusetts by Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 last Wednesday. Kayyem, who has a Lebanese-American father and Lebanese immigrant mother, is the only Arab-American to hold such a prominent position in any state’s homeland security department, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. “I’m having mixed emotions right now. I was not planning this,” Kayyem said...