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...even before the events of June 8, when an Israeli air strike killed Jamal Abu Samhadana, a leading militant in Gaza, and the next day, when seven Palestinian civilians were killed and more than 30 wounded by an explosion while they picnicked on the beach near Beit Lahiya. The aftermath of the beach explosion was filmed by a local cameraman, whose pictures of a young girl wailing for her fatally wounded relatives generated intense scrutiny. The source of the beach blast is being fiercely-debated - Palestinians say it was an incoming Israeli artillery shell, but the Israeli military denies...
...aftermath of a year of Faculty activism that led to the ouster of University President Lawrence H. Summers, members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) say they do not intend to give up their newly-won power once Harvard’s next president takes office...
...including storms of greater magnitude causing sewer flooding, sea-level increase, and even the flourishing of insect populations due to heat and humidity. Paul H. Kirshen, the Tufts professor who managed the project, said he and his team of researchers generated several graphics depicting Boston-area landmarks in the aftermath of a storm a century from now—one of which showed an inundated Square. “A wave would go over the Charles River dam,” Kirshen said. But, he added, “the flooding would not be permanent.” A team...
...seventies. In the 1980 election, during my year as Crimson editorial chairman, in a final gasp of last-ditch leftism, we endorsed the maverick candidacy of Barry Commoner. Having criticized what we saw as the Carter administration’s dangerous and ineffective turn to the right in the aftermath of the Iranian hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, we thought that endorsing the Democrat would be hypocritical. For our purity, we got eight years of Ronald Reagan...
Christie McDonald’s spring-semester course, French 238, “Failure and Change,” focuses on the Enlightenment and its aftermath. But if Harvard were to offer a course on its own administration, the title might be the same.While the University president and the Faculty dean were both casualties in a year of change, the Caucus of Chairs, an informal group of department heads that McDonald coordinated this past fall, saw its position strengthened.Before McDonald, the chair of the Romance languages and literatures department, took over as caucus coordinator, the group?...