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Ten years ago 122 nations signed the Ottawa Convention, a landmark agreement that banned the production, sale and use of land mines. The impact has been significant. The number of victims killed or maimed annually has fallen from 26,000 in 1996 to less than half that today. Afghanistan, which...
To the tune of John Mayer’s “Waiting on the World to Change,” an estimated 2,100 people waited for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama to ascend the stage at “Countdown to Change” in Boston last night...
By now, every editorialist in America has penned a piece decrying the overly long 2008 election, which actually began in 2006. It’s been condemned as a pernicious drain on the media, on our decency, and on our national attention. But it’s not altogether clear...
Returning after a two-week hiatus and facing its biggest test of the season thus far, the Harvard wrestling team garnered a 20th-place finish at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational at the Hilton Convention Center. In the two-day event, two Crimson wrestlers, sophomore J.P. O?...
Unfortunately, the global political community is a long way from speaking with one voice on anything, and climate change is no exception. We'll know for sure next week, when environment and energy ministers from around the world meet on the Indonesian island of Bali, for the UN's climate...