Word: programed
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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This monolithic view that has prevailed ever since the Gulf War is as flawed as the American policy that has accompanied it. The sanctions that are currently imposed on Iraq, while not eliminating Hussein's biological weapons program, can be credited for preventing him from rebuilding his army. However, recent U.N. reports have shown that these sanctions also have had lethal consequences: The collapse of the Iraqi economy, the death of at least 200,000 Iraqi children under five and the crushing of a people who were once, both culturally and intellectually, at the forefront of the Arab world...
...past two heads of the U.N. humanitarian mission in Iraq have resigned, complaining that the program is hopelessly ineffective, not because of Hussein's deliberate interference, but because of bureaucratic incompetence and failing infrastructure. At the same time, others have observed that although the U.N. has set up stringent sanctions, it has not monitored the Iraqi borders as well as it should. Reporters in Iraq have observed that for every legitimate load entering Iraq from Turkey, as many as 200 enter without permission. Hussein is quick to make use of such loopholes. Meanwhile, his people suffer under the sanctions...
...Friday at 4:30 p.m., students will host a panel entitled "Multi-Cultural Perspectives" which will be followed by a Faculty-hosted panel, "Perspectives on Diversity," on Saturday at 2 p.m. Ask what percentage of tenured professors are women or minorities, and ask why Harvard has no degree-granting program in ethnic studies. Athletes should meet with the Department of Athletics to learn about accommodations for students. Ask how important (or not) athletics is to the average Harvard student...
...ceremony was the culmination of "Operation Recognition," a program started by former Cambridge Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55 to grant diplomas to veterans who left Cambridge high schools to fight in World...
...Program emcee John Caulfield said that the veterans attending the ceremony were teenagers until the war intervened...