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...possible case for themselves. Instead, students are forced to blindly put their faith in their resident dean or assistant dean of freshmen, who serves as their advocate to the Board. Though the advocate abstains from voting on matters regarding students he or she represents, it is certainly a gross conflict of interest to have the student’s sole liaison to a judicial body also be a member of that body. Another major flaw in the system is the lack of student representation on the Administrative Board. Students representatives would provide a valuable additional perspective that the Board currently...
...hope that as a community we can get these petitions out, get the legislation signed, and get divestment to occur,” said rally participant Colette S. Perold ’11. “Of course, the long-term goal is that the conflict ends and the government is no longer in power...
...During World War II, stateside audiences got morale-boosting movies with Errol Flynn or John Wayne leading victorious campaigns through Burma and Bataan. The current Mideast conflict is different, of course. America is not mobilized; only the military is. The enemy is not a country but an ideology, not uniformed but civilian guerrillas. And in a War on Terror there's no sure way to declare victory. But just because our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan are less fighting machines than sitting ducks, that doesn't mean that moviegoers should be deprived of go-get-'em war epics...
...development of the relationship, extending the honeymoon period and delaying the inevitable friction of integrating lives. "We all do a certain amount of impression management" at the beginning of a romance, says Stafford. "But in a long-distance relationship, you may always have your makeup on. You avoid conflict no matter what...
...perhaps the first modern "mission accomplished" moment. The U.S. thought it had the Korean War sewn up, but it spent the next three years slugging it out with Mao's "volunteers." In The Coldest Winter (Hyperion; 736 pages), David Halberstam, who died in April, brings angry wisdom to a conflict that, after the moral clarity of WW II, seemed remote and incomprehensible. It was the miserable prototype for wars to come...