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...number of homeowners headed toward foreclosure is rising so quickly that "you need somebody to project what the projections will be - because they're just changing so fast," said Lindley Higgins, the applied-research manager at NeighborWorks America, an urban revitalization project created by Congress. A decade ago, Higgins said, 400,000 foreclosures nationwide was a busy year. America may see 2.5 million...
...would be irresponsible to fixate on sandwiches and not address the darker side of this obsession. Disordered eating is the white elephant in a room full of foodies. In college, separated from my manorexic boyfriend and my modelesque friends, I finally realized how unnecessary my neurotic pattern of behavior toward food was. I stepped back and realized the absurdity of equating liberation from unhealthy food habits with letting myself go. Once I started devoting my mind to more important things, food slowly returned to what it once had been: delicious. And I became happier and infinitely more relaxed. Now it?...
...administration. More than a decade ago, Carter served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy for three years during the Clinton administration. As Assistant Secretary of Defense, he dealt with the possession of weapons of mass destruction in the United States and abroad. In particular, Carter worked toward the removal of nuclear weapons from parts of the former Soviet Union and managed military planning during the U.S.’s response to North Korea’s growing nuclear program in 1994. Carter also oversaw the Department of Defense’s Counterproliferation Initiative and managed...
Students attending the 7:30 p.m. Men’s Hockey game tonight v. Quinnipiac were able to swipe their Harvard IDs at the game to count toward the attendance tally. Tomorrow’s 2:00 p.m. Women’s Hockey Game and 7:00 p.m. Men’s Basketball Game, both vs. Cornell, will also count toward the weekend total...
...while leaders of the two groups are holding reconciliation talks in Cairo this week with a view toward creating a unity government that can oversee the rebuilding of Gaza with international aid, in Lebanon the two sides are preparing for confrontation. Fatah officials accuse Hamas of secretly plotting a takeover of the camps in Lebanon in the same way that the movement took control of Gaza in 2007. Hamas officials say they have no military wing in Lebanon, but last month, a fight broke out in Shatila when Fatah men discovered Hamas moving weapons into the camp. In a different...