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...flurry of emails and in the face of endless posters, it's probably been easy for Harvard students to overlook the reliable happenings at the IOP Forum. But this Monday it played host to a clash between a Harvard law student and U.S. Rep. Barney Frank '61 that was so volatile it made national news. All the evidently newsworthy details, after the jump...
...Tigers enter the weekend’s action reeling from close losses against No. 60 Yale and Brown, with its solitary win in the Ivies coming in its season opener against Penn. However, Harvard knows it will need maximum concentration to win Friday’s clash. The Princeton team has climbed as high as No. 73 nationally this season and boasts the abilities of the 2008 Ivy League Player of the Year, senior Peter Capkovic. “[Capkovic] and [Clayton] have had battles, between a couple of the top players in the region, getting to the semi-finals...
...Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh, a recent publication that was his first book for a popular audience, called on the examination of cultural linkages as a response to the Iraq War. “I was impatient with the loose talk about a clash of civilizations,” he says. “I show that if you go back far enough, there is one civilization...
...against a backdrop of growing Islamist militancy and economic insecurity, fears are growing that the current clash between political rivals could push the country further toward the precipice. Senior U.S. and British envoys have attempted to pull the two sides back. In the most high-profile intervention yet, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made phone calls to both Zardari and Sharif on Saturday. According to a statement from the Pakistani President's office, Clinton "discussed the prevailing situation in Pakistan and said the U.S. was keen to see a stable and democratic system strengthened in the country." Earlier...
...intelligence gathered would be useful in a future showdown. Because U.S. aircraft carriers would play a vital role in any clash with China over Taiwan, being able to bottle up Chinese subs at their base - and measuring the range from their base within which U.S. technology could be used to hunt them before they escape into the open sea, where they would be much more difficult to detect - are key U.S. intelligence goals. The data collected by vessels like the Impeccable, along with detailed maps of the ocean floor near the Chinese base that would guide U.S. sub hunters...