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...terrorism or as a means of containing a population, for example-walls can achieve their objectives. The slab surrounding the West Bank has dramatically reduced the number of suicide bombings inside Israel. The Berlin Wall successfully divided a city for decades. But Danny Seidemann, an Israeli lawyer and legal counsel to Ir Amim, an organization advocating for a Jerusalem that is shared by Israelis and Palestinians, says walls are more than just concrete and barbed wire. They are corrosive symbols of social and economic rifts and iniquities, divisions that eventually must be healed, not merely bottled up. "Physical barriers...
...mail fiasco. The Wall Street Journal reported that the Justice Department is talking to Rove's former assistant as part of its probe into disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff's contacts with the White House. And on April 24, the Los Angeles Times reported that the independent Office of Special Counsel is investigating whether Rove and his staff engaged in a broad range of illegal political activities. What's with Rove's omnipresence? For starters, some investigators are newly empowered congressional Democrats, and he's the guy they're after. "They're throwing as much at him as they...
...however, question his place in any decision-making to follow. “Whether I can properly play a role in the waning weeks of an interim Presidency is not immediately clear to me,” Bok wrote. “But I will certainly seek counsel about the question and think hard about it myself.” For her part, University President-elect Drew G. Faust told The Crimson in February that serious discussion of calendar reform will have to wait for the completion of General Education reforms. University Spokesman John D. Longbrake had no response from...
...though, there is a "decider" - the supreme spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. But Khamenei wields his authority carefully, and in a consultative manner, seeking to maintain the unity of the competing factions of Iran's political class. So, while he is said to pay greater heed to the counsel of more pragmatic advisers such as Larijani and former President Hashemi Rafsanjani, the Supreme Leader is careful to accommodate the popularly elected President Ahmadinejad. For example, while the recent compromise with Britain over the 15 Naval personnel captured at sea may have been brokered in substantial part in talks between Larijani...
...Harvard University Health Services, said that there will be a drop-in group this afternoon at 4 p.m. for those who wish to discuss the tragedy. “We have seen a number of students here at mental health services and at the Bureau of Study Counsel who wanted to talk about the impact of this with an individual,” he wrote in an e-mailed statement...