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Beltran participates in a Christian fellowship group, is a director for the Summer Urban Program, and is the political chair for RAZA. When we asked how she thinks this culture of cramming affects her fellow students, she said, "Students don't know how to slow down and just take an hour for themselves, sit down and just breathe, or relax. They always feel like they have to be moving or doing something. I think in some sense that's good, but I think that a lot of students are unhealthy. I know people that don't sleep and skip meals...
...successes were hardly in vain. Not only has the senior turned in impressive performances on her own, but her improvement over her three years on the team (Mangan ran track freshman year) suggest that the Crimson may be better at developing talent than one might expect from its urban location...
...retired officer from Pakistan's spy agency, the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, isn't so sure. "I personally haven't met anyone who buried Osama," he said in an interview with TIME at his home in Rawalpindi. "It's possible that he found his way to an urban area where he could have received treatment [bin Laden was said to be suffering from a kidney ailment]. But after word that he was crossing the Ghazni Desert, we never heard from him again. But if he is alive, I wish him long life." (See pictures of a jihadist's journey...
...heart. To a significant extent, this is already happening. University Public Service Week was held last October, and President Drew Faust has expounded many times, including in The Crimson, on the virtues of public service—citing her own time with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development as firsthand evidence. Last term, the Institute of Politics hired a career counselor to help students find post-graduation placements in public service. The Harvard Kennedy School is working with the White House Office of Personnel Management to find its graduates public service jobs on a national level. Still, there...
Tapping into the economic grievances of average Iranians may be the next phase of the Green Movement, which has so far been strongest among Iran's urban middle classes. As the regime struggles with a mountain of government debt, unemployment and social subsidies, opposition organizers are sensing an opportunity to expand their base socially and geographically beyond the main cities. On Monday, Feb. 15, the head of the Iranian electricity-workers union said that more than 900,000 of its members are about to lose their jobs and that the country could face an electricity crisis and blackouts because...