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...humanitarian disaster after the Taliban were routed. "You can't build a country if the neighbors are trying to pull it apart," says James Dobbins, a former National Security Council staff member who was part of the American delegation to these talks. "We were able to reach some basic agreements, which led to the Bonn conference, where the rules for the Hamid Karzai government were established. And, I must say, the Iranians were the most helpful of the neighbors throughout the process...
...long-overdue overhaul of the MAC. The health benefits of exercise are manifold and well-known, and the weather in Cambridge can be harsh and unpredictable. Indoor exercise is key to staying fit through those long, slushy winter months. That the University has not provided institutional support for basic improvements to House gyms, and the MAC is beyond unfortunate. And while a full renovation of the MAC will take time, interim measures of providing more exercise machines in under-used campus spaces—both in Houses and the empty floors of the MAC—should have been adopted...
...length, the most basic evidence for why America probably won’t become a modern-day Roman Empire is the fact that, well, we’ve already had the chance and chosen to pass on it. Oh, sure, some point to our military bases around the world, and others use globalization as proof of informal U.S. imperialism. Yet Turkey has long hosted American troops, and it flatly denied our requests for basing and transit rights during the Iraqi campaign. If we really were an empire, then surely we would’ve used our established presence to force...
Filmmaking allowed her to “dream in images and say something about life.” In its second year of existence, Harvard’s film department was still “basic...
Providing aid to survivors of violent crime is a basic obligation of the state. Nonetheless, Romney’s budget put funding for rape crisis centers on the chopping-block—not for a mere reduction, but for complete annihilation. Now that the House’s leadership—under the inept decision-making of Speaker Thomas M. Finneran, D-Mattapan—has kept this horrific cut in the proposed budget, this grave duty falls to the Senate leadership and to the House’s membership...