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...United States must increase troop levels in Afghanistan, help limit the country’s drug cultivation, and train and equip the nation’s armed forces, the nation’s ambassador to the United States said at a JFK Jr. Forum event last night. Ambassador Said T. Jawad said the troubled Middle-Eastern nation—which became a focus of U.S. anti-terrorism efforts following the September 11 attacks—has struggled to rebuild, as the United States shifted its resources toward Iraq. “State building became uncoordinated,” Jawad said...
...send out campus-wide alerts that there was a gunman on campus. Although nothing actually happened, it did send the insular little Jersey town into a panic. The incident raises the question of whether Harvard's text message system will actually work in the event of an emergency, but hell, FlyBy likes Drew Faust's odds against a gunman any day. She'll be serving up a real nasty Republic of Suffering for you, wretched gun-bearer. Just...
...counting contests. Last year, a Boston College senior won the contest by rattling off 3,141 figures of pi.This year’s celebrations were put on hold because organizers would not be available. Math professor Noam D. Elkies, who has been one of the main organizers of the event, will not be in Cambridge this weekend and said that he was not able to find someone to take his place. Former Math Preceptor Bret J. Benesh had also been active in preparing the event, but he left Harvard last year. “So we finally decided to just...
...come back to Broadway with the new revival of “Hair,” and 50 Harvard College students got a sneak peek at its final dress rehearsal a day before previews began on March 6. Sponsored by the Office for the Arts at Harvard (OFA), the event gave the attendees an insider’s view of the making of a Broadway musical. It is emblematic of the new direction the College has taken in an attempt to provide off-campus artistic experiences for students. “Hair” is directed by Diane M. Paulus...
When Barack Obama was elected President of the United States, villagers in a remote Turkish province made headlines by sacrificing 44 sheep to celebrate his victory. Those villagers will feel their celebration was vindicated by Washington's announcement that Obama will travel to Turkey next month - an event being hailed here as proof of Turkey's elevated strategic role in the foreign policy of the new Administration...