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...Israel, public schools teach children how to put on gas masks to protect themselves from an Iraqi attack. These young Israelis confront the specter of chemical and biological warfare every time they practice with their masks. In the United States, we go to the opposite extreme to shelter children from these types of worries. Persian Gulf G.I. Joes don’t have gas mask for the same reason that they don’t carry miniature condoms. Soldiers carry both types of protective devices, but parents don’t want seven year-olds to learn about sex from...
Zachary R. Heineman ’03, a history and literature concentrator in Leverett House, has spent the last three and a half years watching Harvard try to get things built in Cambridge. A former Crimson reporter, he loves watching local residents get fired up as they confront the prospect of another Mather tower in their backyards. His column, appearing on alternate Mondays, will look to the past for perspective on current development plans and maybe make a few humble suggestions...
...three of them. U.S. intelligence insists the men were an al-Qaeda band, but locals say they were nothing more than scrap dealers or smugglers. And as the agency tries to pull together rival Iraqi Kurdish forces into a viable guerrilla force that could take on Saddam, it must confront its sorry history in that territory. In 1995 it attempted to organize a Kurdish rebellion against Saddam, but in the end CIA officers fled their base in northern Iraq, abandoning their Kurdish agents to Iraqi police, who rounded up and executed hundreds. The Clinton Administration, fearing the operation would...
...President George W. Bush has gotten it right. Earlier this month, he came out against the use of the point-based affirmative action admissions system currently in place at the University of Michigan. The Supreme Court’s decision to hear the Michigan case finally allows us to confront the issue of race in college admissions head on and move towards a race-blind university admissions system that truly gives an equal opportunity...
...courage to face a situation that has a huge downside and scant probability of a positive outcome is the very reason that these three women should be recognized. While other people may have had a stronger impact in 2002, these three put faces on an issue we each must confront every day: doing a tough thing for the right reasons. KRISS A. MORRIS Ellisville...