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AN ACADEMIC DIES IN AFGHANISTAN
Scholars mourn a colleague who was recently killed by a roadside bomb while participating in a program that integrates social scientists into Army brigades. A colleague said Michael V. Bhatia (above), who died in Afghanistan, "really did have empathy, and he really did think that he could help better the situation." (Photograph from Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown U.)
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