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...Under pressure from Turkey, the main Kurdish parties agreed to withdraw their Peshmerga, but in their place came policemen from Erbil and Suleymaniya - again Kurds...
While most students in this situation honored their Early Decision agreement and withdrew, McGrath Lewis said, three or four failed to withdraw their Harvard applications. In one case, she said, the University was recently informed by another elite institution that a student whom that college had accepted under Early Decision was also accepted through Regular Action at Harvard after being deferred. When Harvard contacted the student, according to McGrath Lewis, she said she “forgot” that she was expected to withdraw her application to Harvard...
During the offseason, would-be-junior Marc Hordon fell victim to season-ending shoulder injury that forced him to temporarily withdraw from Harvard to maintain full eligibility...
...today’s monthly Faculty meeting, a handful of anti-war professors are expected to ask the Harvard Management Corporation, responsible for managing the University’s endowment, to divest from domestic defense sector stocks—which currently make up 0.5 percent of its endowment. To withdraw all assets from a company is, as activists are well aware, a strong symbolic statement, and as such, Harvard should not divest from an industry at just the slightest hint of moral ambiguity. For the defense industry, the case for divestment cannot be convincingly made...
...misread almost every move the U.S. made in response, starting with his calculation that the first President Bush was not serious about kicking him out of Kuwait. Edhem Pasic, a Bosnian ambassador who befriended Saddam in 1979, went to Baghdad after the July 1990 invasion to persuade Saddam to withdraw. "I told him, 'Of all the reasons to leave Kuwait, maybe the most important reason for you is that the Western countries will destroy you,'" Pasic says. "He answered, 'You do not know what I know,'" preferring to believe his own misguided assessment. When, as the Allies ripped through Iraq...