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...words “Take Back the Night” refer to an annual, nationwide event aimed at empowering survivors, raising awareness, and fostering a community for women who have faced sexual assault...
...banner proclaiming “Take Back the Night” hung above the women and men gathered in Ticknor Lounge at last night’s kickoff event for Harvard’s Sexual Assault Awareness Month programming...
...Pakistani Taliban's audacious, coordinated assault on the U.S. consulate in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Monday suggests that intense operations by the Pakistani military against them have done little to diminish their capacity to retaliate or attack. Shortly after 1 p.m. on Monday, successive car bombs rocked the heavily secured zone near the consulate, spewing thick plumes of grayish smoke over the area, which also houses important Pakistani military personnel. Then, at least six heavily armed assailants dressed in military fatigues and traveling in two vehicles attacked Pakistani police roadblocks with rockets, grenades and weapons fire and attempted...
Although the militants failed to breach the compound's security, the multipronged assault was the most serious strike against an American diplomatic mission in the country since 1979, when the U.S. embassy in the capital of Islamabad was overrun and torched by university students in response to the siege of Mecca by Saudi religious insurgents. Other attacks have followed. In Peshawar in 2008, a U.S. diplomat narrowly escaped a Taliban ambush as she drove to work. Two years earlier, an American diplomat's car was rammed by an explosives-laden vehicle in Karachi, killing him and several other people...
Ultimately, the key American interest in the Middle East, and in Israel in particular, is creating a lasting peace. When a tight relationship with Israel helps protect it against outside assault, allows the American government to shepherd the peace process, or mitigates against Israeli military strikes, America should seek closeness. But when, as now, such a relationship seems to endorse hard-line and counterproductive actions by the Israeli government, undermine long-stretched faith in American impartiality, and undercut the peace process, America should strive for distance. Vice-President Biden’s comment that “the United States...