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...spends over 2% of its GDP - more than any other developed country - on higher education. Many of Europe's universities are run down, with overcrowded classrooms and a lack of such basic equipment as science laboratories and computers. American universities are also better at turning out students with a master's degree in six years, while in Europe it can take almost a decade. Governments realize that universities need more funds - but also know they can't provide them from budgets already overburdened by shrinking tax revenues and rising costs for health care, unemployment benefits and pensions. So politicians...
...national jihadists and taught kamikaze tactics. Both Zacarias Moussaoui, the accused "20th hijacker," and "millennium bomber" Ahmed Ressam were Khalden graduates. That Khalden nurtured European jihad recruits was no accident. The camp was run by Abu Zubaydah, a Palestinian who acted as al-Qaeda's chief recruiter and puppet master of Europe-based terrorists until his arrest in Pakistan in March 2002. According to French antiterror officials, phone intercepts show Zubaydah telegraphed preparations for a foiled 2000 bombing of the Christmas market outside Strasbourg Cathedral and also used London-based clerics as intermediaries. Similarly, jailed Franco-Algerian Djamel Beghal, another...
Former Lowell Master William H. Bossert ’59 estimated last year that removing the bells could cost tens of millions of dollars and require closing the House for a semester...
...need to learn how to party safely without disrupting anyone else, and this includes neighbors’ ability to study or sleep,” Adams House Master Sean Palfrey said. “I know that [nearby students] are hesitant to accost their neighbors, and say, ‘you guys are making too much noise, please tone it down...
While the final decision must be made by Gross, Eliot House Master Lino Pertile said that he thinks the Council of Masters will agree to support the move...