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...Maryellen ‘Mel’ McGowan ’09, the campaigns director of the Harvard College Democrats, who has her own ideas about what needs to happen to get people to vote for the calendar referendum.“You need to, like, e-mail carpet-bomb everyone,” McGowan says. “If someone’s only on their house open list, they should have gotten this e-mail six times by the time this referendum is over.”Sundquist is visibly excited by this prospect...
Perhaps the tragedy of mankind isn’t our wars, genocides, carpet-bombings, and shooting rampages, but our incapacity to understand evil without replicating it. Despite the efforts of millions of souls, no evil is ever the last evil. We forget too quickly and the temptation grows in our minds again to remember the taste of that forbidden fruit...
...putting in a runway long enough to accommodate jumbo jets, but for now it will be used mainly for U.S. military flights. That's because only one Western carrier--Austrian Airlines--is brave enough to land there. Other flights are run by off-brand charters with names like Flying Carpet and Middle Eastern carriers like Iraqi Airways. And even those are unreliable. Many of the officials at Iraqi Airways are former Baathists who deliberately try to delay flights. Flights from Turkey often get canceled when there's a public dispute between Kurdish and Turkish politicians. And all flights...
...runway long enough to accommodate jumbo jets, but for now it will be used mainly for U.S. military flights. That's because only one Western carrier-Austrian Airlines-is brave enough to land there. Other flights are run by off-brand charters with names such as Flying Carpet and Middle Eastern carriers such as Iraqi Airways. And even those are unreliable. Many of the officials at Iraqi Airways are former Baathists who try to gum up the works. Flights from Turkey often get canceled when there's a public dispute between Kurdish and Turkish politicians. And all flights...
...hopes the pub will feel, instantly, as if it’s “part of the Harvard tradition.” Judging by the architectural sketches, which depict bookshelves (made of what I would hope is stolen Honduran mahogany) and an arbitrary globe perched on Oriental carpet, he’ll get his wish...