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...face charges of planning to detonate a bomb in the French city of Strasbourg in December 2000. Federal prosecutors say they and a fifth accused all trained in camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan from 1998 and belonged to an international terrorist organization called the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat. The trial is expected to last up to 12 months, and the defendants face up to 10 years in jail if convicted...
...report recommending the College radically change its numerical grading scale and overhaul its honors system to combat grade inflation was debated in a closed meeting of the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) yesterday...
When the idea came up for Christian Impact (CI) and the Harvard Secular Society (HSS) to combine theological debate with simulated violence in a trip to Paintball Heaven in nearby Bridgewater, both groups jumped at the chance to create a Harvard version of the Crusades. “Philosophical combat with Christians is too easy. In the proverbial battle of wits, they’re unarmed” said HSS President Ram C. Gowda ’02. “Paintball was much cooler; we got to savor the primal joy that comes from dodging your enemy?...
...power, an abuse of our foreign policies, and an insult to the intelligence of Americans and Iraqis alike. America’s impetus for a full-on assault on Iraq ended with the Gulf War; it cannot use a decade-old grudge to push America into more combat...
There are far more victims of sexual violence than the average flier-reader is aware of. It is vital to both combat the attitudes that lead to sexual violence and create a supportive environment in which survivors can freely express their emotions about what happened to them. But the purple ribbons are essentially meaningless. It would not hurt anyone to wear the ribbon, but what would it accomplish beyond a momentary acknowledgement of a serious societal problem...