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...only hope that the Crimson staff’s Apr. 1 editorial on U.S.-Israel relations (“Stepping Back”) was an elaborate, if poorly executed, April fool’s joke. Among the sillier contentions made in the article are that Israel’s victories in 1967 and 1973 “demonstrated conclusively” that Israel can defend itself without foreign assistance. This argument gets it backwards. Israeli success was at least partially attributable to foreign assistance and thus reveals the necessity, rather than the irrelevance, of aid from its allies in facing...
...Crimson staff believe the U.S. must grow closer to? Which Israeli actions does the Crimson staff consider “atrocities” rather than legitimate self-defense? Rather than answer such questions and provide concrete policy prescriptions, the Crimson falls back on the trope—popular among totalitarian regimes during the Cold War—that Israeli actions are imperialist and racist. The Crimson appears to place unilateral blame for the failure of the peace process on Israel, making no mention of the rejectionism or eliminationist ideology of Israel’s enemies. Nowhere does the Crimson recognize...
Several others echoed this sentiment, arguing that divisions within a classroom would address the large discrepancies in academic level among students...
Drinking habits among co-workers and neighbors were not significantly correlated with how much an individual drank...
Mexican drug cartels apparently use Twitter and Facebook not only to communicate with one another, but also to spread fear through local communities. Recently in the bloody border town of Reynosa, people associated with one cartel used tweets to terrorize Reynosa by posting messages that created panic among residents and halted normal activities as the threats circulated online. One such message read, "The largest scheduled shootout in the history of Reynosa will be tomorrow or Sunday, send this message to people you trust that tomorrow a convoy of 60 trucks full of cartel hitmen from the Michoacan Family together with...