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Abigail R. Branch '98, a social studies concentrator, and Andrea E. Johnson '98-'99, an environmental science and public policy concentrator, live in Quincy House. Their column appears on alternate Wednesdays...
Ambassador Scheffer is the State Department's point man on this effort and his appointment is an encouraging sign from the administration. But not every branch of our government is cooperating with international efforts. For example, this past winter, a federal judge in Texas refused to extradite a Rwandan accused of genocide being held by U.S. marshals...
Regular banking activities like customer contact are a rare commodity these days. Although a community bank is much needed, it is a hassle to find one in the postmerger world. I used to be able to call someone at my local bank branch if I had a problem. After my bank merged, the only way I could contact someone was via fax! And now fees have been raised and new ones introduced. The other banks in the area are even worse. Guess I'll have to get used to dealing with the best of the worst. YOGESH KAVITA Schaumburg...
According to both Israeli and Palestinian sources, the West Bank branch of Izzaddin al-Kassam, the military wing of Hamas, has recently gone independent from the group's leadership in the Gaza Strip. Says a Hamas guerrilla in the West Bank: "We are no longer waiting for the orders to come from Gaza." Izzaddin al-Kassam's West Bank commander, ADEL AWEDALLAH, is said to be hungry for action. "He knows his days are numbered," says a ranking Israeli army officer. "We're after him, the Palestinians are after him, and he's trying to do everything he can before...
...Cultural Revolution, Yan attended a school that was less than educational: in the afternoons, the children manufactured envelopes. In 1980, as China was starting to open to the outside world, Yan's grandfather reactivated old international links from before the 1949 communist revolution. (Granddad had founded Tianjin's branch of the Rotary Club in the 1920s.) Yan got a Rotary scholarship and was the first high school student in China allowed to go abroad. Wearing his school uniform, he took a train to the Hong Kong border. A family friend met him, bought him clothes, a watch and a Playboy...