Word: zero
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...Decades later, the Fakir's stomping grounds are again ground zero in a war on terror. American, NATO and Pakistani troops face a hydra-like insurgency led by a string of shadowy extremist leaders who make expert use of the border's treacherous, land mine-riddled terrain, melting into the mountains only to resurface, ever stronger, from their myriad training camps and bases. "I doubt whether Washington in 2007 knows much more about what is happening in Waziristan than London did in 1937," says Alan Warren, a military historian and author of a book on Khan. If so, as with...
...Obviously not everybody’s happy about it,” said Jay M. Harris, the Wolfson professor of Jewish studies and chair of the Near Eastern languages and civilizations Department. “In an ideal world, we wouldn’t deal in zero sums,” Harris said, “In an ideal world, there would be a nice campaign and the humanities and social sciences would be taken care of also. We need to grow too.” FAS currently faces a budget shortfall, in part a result of a hiring surge...
...which brought together two of Harvard’s most renowned and brilliant scholars to create a new class focused on small discussions, is a prime example of what the new curriculum should strive for. Currently, however, the rewards for creating such a class are next to zero. The new dean is the only person who can allocate the funds needed to reward the development of new and exciting classes and pedagogical methods, and he or she must make doing so one of the top budgetary priorities.Tenured professors, however, are often not the best people to teach broad introductory courses...
...particularly captivating tableau, until, finally, a SWAT team surrounds and infiltrates the building and an unidentifiable someone is dragged away. The video feels like it could be part of a longer movie: perhaps Reznor is further populating the fictional dystopian world of his upcoming disc, “Year Zero.” As the mastermind behind Nine Inch Nails, he’s responsible for every note you hear on every album, and for cultivating the band’s iconically dark image. His latest publicity stunt is a viral advertising campaign of impressive scope meant to establish...
...down--only to see Moyo sit at an adjacent table. I beckoned to him, but, head down, he demurred. A man asked to share my table and introduced himself as a manager for the Christian relief organization World Vision. I asked him about this year's harvest. "There's zero," he said. "No crop. Millions of hungry people, and just our maize sacks to feed them...