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...Sunnis appeared to be targeting one another unpredictably. But as U.S. soldiers learned more about the most recent killings, a pattern emerged. The murders looked less like mayhem and more like an organized effort to clear the neighborhood of Sunnis, whose homes were then handed to Shi'ite families. Ali Shi'aa, who heads the local council for Washash, says more than 250 Shi'ite families have arrived there after fleeing violence elsewhere. "The families who came here after being displaced elsewhere in Baghdad came angry," says Shi'aa. "They started taking revenge on Sunni families, to displace them just...
...Hadfield ’08 and S. Adam Goldenberg ’08, Ryan A. Petersen ’08 and Matthew L. Sundquist ’09, Ali A. Zaidi ’08 and Edward Y. Lee ’08, Tim R. Hwang ’08 and Alexander S. Wong ’08, Brian S. Gillis ’07-’08 and Morgan C. Wimberley ’08, and Omar A. Musa ’08 and Daniel Ross-Rieder ’08 are also seeking the top two positions...
...unlikely that Sacha Baron Cohen designed his Borat character in order to capitalize on this anxiety. He introduced the character several years ago on “Da Ali G Show,” before Islam had become a major part of the political discourse. But if America were not mired in Iraq and if Muslim relations with the West and the War on Terror—or as Borat calls it, the “War of Terror”—were not so important, “Borat” would not have sold as many...
...call upon Harvard to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 11 percent from its 1990 levels by 2020. The ballot question will also ask students to pledge “to do [their] part to realize these reductions” while at Harvard. The legislation, sponsored by Lowell House Rep. Ali A. Zaidi ’08, Eliot House Rep. Tom Hadfield ’08, and the Harvard Environmental Action Committee, passed unanimously. The referendum will take place during presidential elections, which will be held Dec. 4 through the 7th. Also yesterday, UC President John S. Haddock...
...television show “Borat,” part of “Da Ali G Show,” in which comedian Sacha Baron Cohen’s character first appeared, thrives on idiocy and prejudice. At its best, the show is a hilarious and biting social commentary on society’s bigotry and absurdities. Its foolish victims feel perfectly comfortable revealing their prejudices to some dumb and irrelevant foreigner, or else are too polite to disagree with him. For the most part, they have only themselves to blame for their humiliation...