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...Faust, raised in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, has devoted her scholarly career to the study of the South—with particular attention to issues of gender and race...
...virtually impossible to avoid all contacts with major firms like the two in question. By playing “six degrees of PetroChina,” one could no doubt find Harvard-backed companies that invested in companies that invested in companies that invested in PetroChina. But in this particular case, there is little ambiguity; investments in the Chinese firms comprised a sizable 12.6 percent of one of the Harvard-owned funds. This, in our view, does not represent a good faith attempt to keep Harvard’s hands clean in light of its commitment to ethical investing...
...report states that four themes informed yesterday’s proposal—a commitment to Harvard’s teaching and research mission, with a particular emphasis on interdisciplinary study; the creation of “new places for the Harvard and public communities to meet”; an emphasis on sustainable development; and the goal of generating local and regional economic benefits...
...What worries generals in both the Army and Marine Corps is being able to actually find enough recruits to fill out the new, bigger services. The Army, in particular, had serious problems over the past few years reaching its recruitment goals and has had to allow older, less qualified newcomers. But Gen. Wallace told a small group of reporters this morning that recruiting is holding up remarkably well at the moment. In fact, he said, they are about 120% of where they expected to be at this time in the year, on their way to an annual goal of some...
...what would happen if the Iraqis fail to meet them. The framers of the surge - a military historian and a retired general working under the auspices of the American Enterprise Institute - envisioned it taking 18-24 months to stabilize Baghdad and did not tie it to any particular progress by the government. But whatever the levers, there is no agreement that the U.S. can sustain a surge for that long without a significant drop in readiness and a growing shortage of equipment. That was another reason the generals were so reluctant to go along with this option. Earlier this week...