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...emphasis on the arts element of the Allston plan was replaced with a focus on the Science Complex. That year, the University finally got the go-ahead from the Boston Redevelopment Association to break ground on the $1 billion state-of-the-art science research facility that it hoped would become a mecca for stem cell research. The project would herald a new concentration—Human Regenerative and Developmental Biology—and provide a space to house the department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology. But just four months ago, University President Drew G. Faust announced an indefinite...
...original delay on the construction of arts facilities in Allston has had ramifications even until the beginning of this year. In January, Helen Molesworth, the head of the modern and contemporary art department at Harvard, left the University for the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Boston...
...spirits but misgivings remain. Prime Minister Gordon Brown denied that the decision made at a January summit in London - to offer cash to insurgents to lay down arms - amounted to a bribe. But the idea is a hard sell to soldiers who saw colleagues killed providing security last year for presidential elections stained by fraud and intimidation. Another key task, training the Afghan army and police to take over from coalition forces - the only plausible exit strategy for the coalition - is fraught with danger from Taliban infiltration, especially among police recruits. In November, five British soldiers mentoring police training were...
...General Richard Dannatt, head of the army from 2006 to last year, says a lack of resources had left the military conducting operations "with at least part of one arm tied behind one's back." Facing brutal decisions about priorities across the services, the army, navy and air force are now turning their fire on the government and each other. Afghanistan is "not the only show in town ... We must remain prepared for surprises and strategic shocks," declared navy chief Admiral Mark Stanhope in a recent speech...
...Until that happens, Sandhurst is overseeing a production line of officers who must expect to be plunged quickly into the complexities of modern missions. Captain Matt Woodward left Sandhurst in April 2002, and deployed to Iraq the following year. "On my first tour my squadron leader was 50 miles away from me," he says. "I was running a town of 40,000 on my own with a troop of 16 people. I went to Iraq with some armored vehicles and they said, 'Right, here's your town. There's a police force here that's largely ineffective, there...