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...broke down while reading "One Morning in Haditha" [March 27], the story of the Iraqi civilians killed by U.S. Marines. Military excesses should never be covered up and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. The lives of the children who lost their parents are permanently devastated. Rather than paying the relatives of the victims $2,500 each, the U.S. government should work with nongovernmental agencies to see if those innocent children could be adopted into Western homes. Victory in Iraq seems hardly worth it, when the very people who are to be protected by U.S. forces...
...Despite some recent rate hikes - low-fare titan Southwest Airlines just broke its four-year one-way cap of $299 - fares across the industry, adjusted for inflation, are no higher than they were in the 1980s and 15% below those of 2000. Demand is up too: in 2005 over 75% of seats were full. But with rising fuel costs pinching the bottom line, the airlines are looking to boost revenue in other ways - by charging for amenities that used to be free...
...each individual student. Nonetheless, judging from the anecdotes of middle-income students, Harvard’s aid awards could stand to improve for these students as they have for lower-income students. Families making about $110,000 a year that send two children to Harvard end up nearly broke. With a considerably smaller aid award, middle-income parents are in many cases find it more difficult to maintain their standard of living than lower-income families while still paying for their children’s education. Their children end up with more debt post-Harvard than students from poorer families...
...public transportation services.” Joseph A. Ford ’06, a Currier House resident with cerebral palsy, agreed that changes to the local T stop were necessary. Ford described a particularly difficult T stop experience. After a malfunctioning elevator in the Harvard Square T stop actually broke down, Ford said he was left stranded in the station while he waited for a repairman. “I think it looks like a good settlement, but it’s too bad that they didn’t take these actions before they were sued...
...ditty, while their extremely long Jesus-was-a-carpenter curls floated in the breeze. I picked at least four knit hats off the floor and about three Livestrong bracelets doused in apricot-flavored slime. That’s commitment to the art of dance. Eventually the police broke up the party and we trudged back to the dorm, where my friend went to wash off her stage makeup and her roommate and various suspiciously Christ-like men started speaking French. I told them I didn’t speak French. They did not say anything and continued speaking French...