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Panelists at a forum on the Darfur genocide urged audience members yesterday to become activists for the peaceful resolution of the on-going conflict. The forum, “Advocating for Darfur,” held at the Institute of Politics (IOP), was moderated by Rebecca Hamilton, co-founder of the Harvard Darfur Action Group and a third-year student at Harvard Law School. Hamilton opened the discussion by asking the panelists to explore the effects of the lesser-known conflict in South Sudan on the current crisis in Darfur. Rev. Gloria White Hammond, a pediatrician in Boston...
...tongue of our professor, but from a white classmate, in the midst of a comment on a joke that a slave (the “nigger” in question) told to his master. This came as such a shock to everyone not simply because of the obvious conflict between the race of the commenter and the word itself, but because up until that point, no one—neither the professor nor any other student—had referred to the slave that way. [CORRECTION APPENDED] Once the initial shockwave subsided, a scene in stark contrast to the brochure...
With today’s general education report, this one-time training ground for Puritan ministers resurrects part of its historical emphasis on faith, at the same time as it responds to a recent rise in religious conflict across the globe...
After the magazine’s editors kicked FM out of its own birthday party, most headed to the Quad while digesting delicious clown cake, maybe pondering on their way whether FM’s writing about itself qualifies as conflict-of-interest. Outside the LSluts Party in Pfoho (A+ for cleverness), one freshman girl innocently inquired “Where is Belltower? Is that a dorm?” Hasty Pudding Theatricals celebrated the birthdays of Josh M. Brener ’07 and Ben K. Kawaller ’07 in style in the Gilbert Living Room, complete...
...crisis, spurred by some emotional and erratic outbursts from Georgia, may actually suit Moscow's agenda, since the deeper issue driving the conflict is Georgia's geopolitical orientation: Georgia has joined the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline that skirts Russia and ends its monopoly on transporting Caspian Sea oil to world markets; it has defied Moscow on a range of regional issues; and it is attempting to join NATO, presenting the Russian military brass with the prospect of a strategic rival strengthening its position along Russia's southern underbelly. In short, the crisis is an expression of Russia's failure...