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...busy to buy that special someone a Valentine’s Day gift? Now you can send him or her a digital kiss via Facebook’s new “gift shop” feature—and make a charitable donation while you’re at it. The gift shop, launched last week, allows members to send their friends an icon of anything from a box of cyber chocolates to a roll of toilet paper. The shop is the brainchild of recent Harvard alums and current Facebook employees, Jared S. Morgenstern...
Crimson staff writers Paras D. Bhayani and Claire M. Guehenno spoke with President-elect Drew Gilpin Faust via phone last night after the afternoon press conference announcing her selection. In the nine-minute interview, she offered thoughts on her predecessors, undergraduate education, and the origins of her first name...
...briefed the Council, announcing revisions to the process for allocation of grants to student groups and the posting of regulations governing those processes online. Among the changes Li mentioned was the ability for student groups to track the progress of their grant allocation from beginning to end via the Internet and the collection of 100% of expenditure receipts from those groups awarded funding. —Staff writer Christian B. Flow can be reached at cflow@fas.harvard.edu...
...stalemate will continue. Early this morning, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke with other Quartet representatives - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, EU security policy chief Javier Solana, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, and European Commissioner for External Relations Benita Ferrero-Waldner- via secure telephone conference call. In a statement issued later in the day, the group reaffirmed its principles, adopted a wait-and-see stance on the unity government plan and called a Quartet strategy session for Feb. 21 in Berlin...
...measures have amounted to a financial stranglehold of the Palestinian territories that is fueling a humanitarian - and political - crisis. But the Western powers insist they have tried to avert a that kind of crisis - and international pressure to compromise with Hamas - by pouring massive amounts aid into the territories via non-governmental organizations. According to U.S. and European officials, the Palestinians received $700 million in external support last year, compared to $350 million in 2005. "It is not a humanitarian crisis," a senior Administration official said in a briefing last week. "There's a difficult economic situation in some places...