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...tray-crammed status: the dining hall will become a runway, and the bright colors of General Gao’s chicken and Hawaiian punch will be replaced by an equally-splendid tapestry of student and professional design. Contradictions: A Charity Fashion Show will benefit Spheres of Exchange, the Boston branch of the non-profit Refugee Women’s Network, a group that “serves refugee and immigrant women through leadership training, education and advocacy.” The event is sponsored here at Harvard by AMBLE, Aspiring Minority Business Leaders & Entrepreneurs, who have worked to bring...
...over people to face torture or to countries where torture is likely to take place. Defending the rendition program without explicitly naming it, Alberto Gonzales, then the White House counsel, wrote in Congressional testimony last January that he “was not aware of anyone in the executive branch authorizing any transfer of a detainee in violation of that policy.” Notice all of the qualifiers: “not aware,” “executive branch,” authorizing,” and “that policy.” A master...
Spring reintroduces the beloved Boston Pops Orchestra, a branch of the BSO. This orchestra plays lighter fare, delighting its audience with favorites such as John Williams’ “Theme from Star Wars” and John Phillip Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes Forever.” The carefree Pops atmosphere, complete with balloons and pitchers of “Pops Punch,” brings a welcome step out of the dreary winter...
There must be more than an illusory solution, and that means that Summers, Kirby and the Faculty must work together to mend their strained relationship. Both sides have said that they have extended the proverbial olive branch. Now both need to stop talking and actually do something...
...strategy” was a double-birdie for the Republicans: unified opposition that killed Democratic legislation, and Washington stalemate that killed the Democratic Congress. The lesson for today’s Democrats is clear: Unrelenting, unapologetic opposition is the only effective means of confronting, and ultimately defeating, the three-branch, fifty-state, multimedia right-wing behemoth that is America’s new governing party. And to the dangerously naïve among us—those who counsel “working with the president,” and hoist Tom Daschle’s political corpse as evidence...