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With rainboots and umbrellas, a large group of Harvard students and other Boston-area residents marched across campus yesterday afternoon to protest the Iraq War on its fifth anniversary. Students distributed homemade signs with slogans like “Harvard Against War” and “Out of the Armchair, Into the Streets” to a crowd of about 50 people who started gathering outside the Science Center around 2:30. The demonstrators marched through the Square, up Mass. Ave., across the Law School campus, and then back to the Science Center. The leaders of the protest...
...back to Mather to print the final page before sprinting across campus to CGIS. “I ran. Very quickly,” she said. Her thesis was handed in with several minutes to spare. As students in Economics, History, and Psychology turn in their senior theses this afternoon, they undoubtedly hope for a less dramatic finale to the months of research and writing that have gone into the process. Psychology concentrators will have one less hurdle to jump as they turn in their theses electronically—a policy begun in 2006. While History and Literature concentrators submitted...
Trudging through the cold at five in the afternoon, I saw the line wrapping along the block long before I reached it. All that was missing were the cameras and Mickey Mouse hats and it could have been Disney World. The line had taken on a life of its own, swelling and curving and slithering along...
...This is a perfect opportunity for Western governments to stand up to the Chinese regime’s human rights record and advocate for dialogue with the Dalai Lama. On Tuesday afternoon, the French foreign minister and human rights advocate Bernard Kouchner said that Reporters Without Borders’ idea of boycotting the Olympics opening ceremony should be considered at the next European Union foreign ministers gathering, scheduled for March 28th. Considering the overwhelming power of the Chinese in both economic and military terms, international pressure in the context of the Olympics remains the Tibetans’ best hope...
...recent afternoon I was walking down Hamra, Beirut's old main shopping area, when a car pulled up alongside of me and the driver asked how I liked Lebanon. The place is still thriving, the snow-capped peaks, not a cloud in the sky, the shops full of the latest stylish clothes. It was fantastic, of course...