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...anger draws respectful murmurs from the mourners. "I would empty all six chambers into him. I have the guts to kill those people, those stupid drunks who spill innocent blood here, rape girls, murder us, because we are Muslim." Qureishi's accusations are hard to deny: even hardened nationalists admit that an overwhelming body of anecdotal evidence and witness reports point to state complicity, and even involvement, in the anti-Muslim pogrom. Hamid was simply another victim, says Qureishi, shot by a policeman in the right kidney April 23 while standing in the doorway of his family home...
...refusal to function as a college. As a College disciplinary body, the Ad Board is responsible for upholding campus standards which, even though not punishable in criminal court, are still enforced at Harvard. The College has made it against the rules to sexually assault another student. It cannot now admit its inability to enforce that rule and go back to dealing with plagiarism cases and study cards. The Ad Board must be trained to deal with sexual assault cases and to discipline students who break Harvard’s rules but who may never be found guilty in a court...
...Students admit they often needlessly waste energy...
...After being rejected from the groups more times than I would ever admit, I rediscovered that my acerbic side would never tolerate the saccharine dynamics of a cappella. And as I saw more of Harvard, I learned that the smiles during performances were often only surface-deep. A cappella groups are businesses; their members have their own lives and they are not always buddies. Sometimes the same people harmonizing onstage are having an all-out fight offstage; a cappella groups are made up of a variety of personalities who come into conflict, like any other group at Harvard. So, getting...
...South is just crazy,” she says. “Ours is a big party for 20 girls, not for one girl. In the South, I can see people spending $50,000 on a party.” Young women who have experienced it first-hand admit that debuts do seem more momentous in the warmer states. Tanner moved from Maryland to Alabama when she was 12 years old. Her older sister was not invited to come out because the family hadn’t lived in the South long enough. “It?...