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...Both sides expect the problem to be addressed at the World Health Assembly, the annual meeting of all 193 member nations of the WHO, which begins May 14. Indonesia has been weathering criticism of its response to bird flu since the outbreaks began, but the country will come under intense international pressure if it continues to abstain from sharing. One international health expert based in the region notes that Jakarta hasn't been shy about asking for international help in controlling the disease in chickens, claiming that bird flu had originated outside its borders. "But when it comes to sharing...
...reality that many students nonetheless face each year. There is a plethora of sources for summer funding for internships and travel, from Institute of Politics (IOP) stipends to the Dean’s Summer Research Awards. Most of those stipends, however, only cover living expenses, so the problem of a student’s summer contribution persists. Thankfully, there is a fairly simple solution: the Financial Aid Office (FAO) could waive one summer’s contribution for students planning to work in an unpaid position in the public or community service fields. Such a system, which is already...
...created to supplant House Committees. Using the CEB’s money to hold small scale or House-based events does nothing to further the creation of Harvard undergraduate identity. The lack of an undergraduate identity ranks as one of the biggest problems that Harvard College faces today, and campus-wide events directly help combat this problem. At Harvard-Yale, the year’s biggest campus-wide event, we students bring out our Harvard sweatshirts and Crimson face paint, willing to defend Crimson football to the death. But that one weekend in November is the only time we unite...
...symbolized by the members of the public who were at the event - or, rather, who were outside the Hilton Hotel in midtown Manhattan. Scores of members of the group Wake Up Wal-Mart were protesting the meeting, accusing the company of being part of the country's health care problem, rather than the solution...
...Tennessee, compared the challenge of reform to the bipartisan efforts made on civil rights in the 1960s and the environment in the 1970s. Baker knows Washington's political culture has changed for the worse since he retired several years ago, so while his description of the scope of the problem is accurate, the difficulty of achieving it in the current bitter climate is considerable...