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...deny al-Qaeda a second life elsewhere in the world counts mainly on diplomacy, intelligence and law enforcement. Military sources tell Time that the Pentagon has asked regional commanders to draw up plans for throttling an array of militants from the Middle East to Africa to Asia. But the basic idea is to push friendly nations and those worried about self-preservation to take out terrorist hubs. Already, Pentagon officials tell Time, 100 U.S. special-ops commandos will deploy to train Philippine soldiers in counterterror and close-quarter battle tactics against the Abu Sayyaf insurgents who have ties...
...House committees haven’t been treated like registered student groups in the past, in that the latter are required to go through basic training,” Dingman said. “When the issue of House Committee budgets was raised, members of the Committee [on House Life] thought it would be useful to have information on each House’s budget, and that perhaps we could end up with greater equity and Houses learning from one another...
...have long opposed abandoning the ABM treaty. A national missile defense has not yet been proven feasible, and many basic tests of the prototype systems have failed. A defense system will also be incredibly costly, and those costs come at a time when the Bush administration is seeking to curb expenditures on important and necessary antiterrorism measures. The administration already has suggested cutting a program to safeguard Russian nuclear material because it is too expensive. Sept. 11 showed that the greatest threat facing the U.S. is not a warhead on an ICBM, but a “dirty bomb?...
...have fallen faster and farther than anyone but the workers themselves could have imagined. Hundreds of letters from students, workers, faculty and community members have argued that a living wage floor, a ban on outsourcing service work and protection of the right to organize are necessary to ensure the basic well-being of Harvard workers...
...Placate Us With Temporary Benefits,” but rather “Justice for Janitors.” Nearly 1,000 people marched through the Yard supporting the principles that workers should have a voice in our community, that they should be paid enough to meet the basic costs of living and that they should be given equal treatment for equal work. Poverty wages, anti-union practices and outsourcing at Harvard must be ended not only to help workers, but also because they violate these important principles...