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...three panelists revealed a celebrity-crazed underbelly to their work. They identified race, sex, and celebrity as pivotal factors in making “the crimes of the century” that they cover—from the Anna Nicole Smith affair to the Duke rape scandal...
...think. Germany’s were not the only delegates who left the negotiating table discontented, though their dissatisfaction was most immediately explosive. If we can take anything from Andelman’s account of what was an extraordinary crossroads in history, it is that diplomacy is a messy affair. The hope is that future attempts at international accord will be less so, though it’s unclear from Andelman’s work how history can aid us in this endeavor.—Staff writer Anjali Motgi can be reached at amotgi@fas.harvard.edu...
...it’s shaping up to be a real grind-it-out, low-scoring affair. It’ll be cold, and with about 148 hours separating it from a perfect Ivy campaign and its first crown since 2004, Harvard won’t be taking any chances. But I have a hunch on the over...
...Certainly, this week's love-fest has been a two-way affair, and Bush has his own reasons for making nice with the auslanders. Nor is Bush lacking in tactical ability when he chooses to employ it: He is playing Merkel and Sarkozy off each other, for example, exploiting the tense relations between the two in the interest of pressuring for progress on Iranian nuclear negotiations and greater help from both in Afghanistan. But after this week's warm and fuzzy meetings, don't be surprised if more and more foreign leaders realize now's the time to get what...
...Although the defendant appeared calm during the first day's proceedings, his long history of defiant, often aggressive behavior suggests that the trial could be a turbulent affair. During five years of preparation for the trial, he tossed obscenities at prosecutors and court clerks during hearings, refused to use a computer and insisted that all court papers (some 250,000 pages) be translated in Serbian Cyrillic (Serbs use both scripts). Like Milosevic, Seselj insisted on being his own defense lawyer, and when the court attempted to assign him an attorney, he went to a 28-day-long hunger strike, until...