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...American G.I.s return to Khardeh, they will again find it undefended: the village is in a U.N.-mandated demilitarized zone, and the nearest armed Iraqi is six miles away. "We may have to defend ourselves," Hamed says, "like the Palestinians, using rocks." But this attempt at a brave face is betrayed by a weak smile and a resigned shrug. "God willing, our army may be able to get here quickly and save us," he says, without conviction. Does he feel safe in Khardeh? "Our safety," he says, "is in God's hands...
Last summer, just before the release of I Phantom, Lif put out the Emergency Rations EP and his most incendiary single to date: “Home of the Brave.” A fantastically articulate—and funky—verbal assault on the Bush administration and their war on terrorism, the song concluded with the line “You can wave that piece-of-shit flag if you dare / But they killed us because we’ve been killing them for years.” The single was accompanied by rumors from Lif?...
...inspect syllabi, a part of us thinks, How good could a social analysis course really be? Even as we buy new notebooks, we sigh a little, thinking of how many pages there are to fill, and of how gracelessly we will fill them; even as we write brave resolutions in pink marker—even as we promise ourselves to go to the gym three times a week!—a part of us knows we won’t do it. We are too old, or too clever, to give ourselves over fully to hope; we feel...
...also suggested that American journalists follow the government’s international policy because they are not brave enough to challenge...
...home country before he ever stepped foot on the Space Shuttle. The pain is also felt deeply here at Harvard, for a certain kinship is shared amongst those—be they students at desks or astronauts in space—who devote their lives to the brave pursuit of knowledge. We thank President Summers and the various student organizations responsible for the beautiful remembrance ceremony that was held in Memorial Church in honor of the fallen. Let us hope that the same need we feel to grieve together as one remains with us as we move forward, unified...