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Just a dusty mile or so from where a fellow platoon leader was recently killed by a powerful roadside bomb, Army 1st. Lt. James Vansandt piles out of a Humvee and sets out with his Iraqi translator into the darkness toward the crowded main street of Musayyib, a ramshackle Shi'ite town set along the Euphrates River some 40 miles south of Baghdad. Robed men are gathered in clusters on benches and around tables brought out after the daily ritual of breaking the 12-hour Ramadan fast. As his platoon fans out into the shadows on both sides...
...groups said Harvard discriminated against Toomey, a 20-year library veteran who they said has a medical disability. Toomey was arrested on May 10 and charged with disorderly conduct and making terrorist threats after other commuters at the Alewife T Station allegedly overheard him say he had a bomb in his backpack. The criminal case has not yet been decided. Shortly after the arrest, Harvard administrators put Toomey on leave and requested that other library employees report any concerns they had about his behavior, according to union representatives. The university fired Toomey, who was still on leave, on August...
...less clear-cut. North Korea had withdrawn from the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and tested a nuclear weapon; Iran remains under the NPT and is nowhere close to building nuclear weapons. Western governments fear that mastering civilian nuclear technologies such as uranium enrichment, allowed under the NPT, would put bomb-making capability within reach of the Iranian regime, and should be prevented. Iran counters that enrichment is its right under the NPT. For the U.N., the concern has been over Iran's transparency rather than the principle of enrichment. The lines of compromise are far from clear...
This year, Martabel Wasserman ’10 has stepped up to get H-Bomb running again. “A person from the previous board asked me in June if I would be interested in releasing the next issue. I immediately started working on it,” she says...
...student, mark your calendars—the next issue of H-Bomb is due in February. A long wait from October, but justifiable for a magazine that, according to the H-Bomb website, is “somewhere beyond porn...a happy medium where intellectual is sexy and hot is genius.” Does having a happy medium mean that Mansfield is the new sexy? Totally your call...