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...splitting the West and the wider international community, the U.S.-backed declaration of independence by Kosovo has given Russia an opening. Countries concerned with separatist problems of their own, from Spain or Cyprus to China, have been unable to follow the U.S. lead in recognizing Kosovo's breakaway from Serbia. And Russia has sought to exploit the gaps that have emerged as a result...
...violence and it created an opportunity to resolve some of Kenya's fundamental problems. We now have a coalition government that was forced on the Kenyan political élite by the international community. Had it not been for the vigorous intervention of Kenya's neighbors, and of the wider world - particularly Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who worked the phones ceaselessly - the belligerents would not have set aside their differences. The upside of this is that the Kenyan crisis has empowered the region and the African Union to intervene robustly when things go badly wrong in an important member...
Like Harry, Andrew is a second son, born to duty but without a purpose. Like Harry, he saw active service, back in 1982 in the Falklands. Like many family members, he's wont to express opinions at odds with wider public opinion (I once heard Andrew say that American culture has made no impact on Britain). Despite a long naval career and his more recent efforts as Britain's special representative for trade and investment, he has never quite shaken off his reputation as a playboy prince. The same fate threatened Harry until his star turn in the theater...
...number of years, but he said he considers his new job an opportunity to increase his interaction with undergraduates. “Harvard undergraduates are full of interest and initiative,” he said. “I look forward to getting to know a wider range of students through the house.” Omid G. Shahi ’09, former Currier House Committee co-chair and a member of the group consulted in the search for new house masters, said he remembers Wrangham as being both charismatic and funny in his interview for the position...
...Harvard (with its enormous coffers) cannot really consider cost with regard to this proposal. If we take the College’s rhetoric seriously, then student satisfaction and eliminating economic discrimination should come before all else. Wider beds aren’t an unimaginable luxury; they’re a need waiting to be addressed. Their arrival would bring some joy to Cambridge’s cantankerous young people, and we wouldn’t have to go looking for special ultra-thin sheets, either...