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...Superette, provides a valuable service to the College community. The proprietor of one of Harvard’s most beloved institutions vends forties and Foxhorn to the River’s card-carrying residents. Louie, a.k.a. Cheng-san Chen, has seen it all from his perpetual post behind the counter. Spoken in his own words to our FM reporter, Louie reminisces about the time he actually caught a fake ID and the helpfulness of inebriated undergraduates...
Another time this guy came into the store. He was drunk, oh yes. Oh, yes, very drunk. Very, very, very drunk. He jump back here (Louie points to his entrepreneurial domain behind the counter). He wanted to do the register and make the change. I said, ‘You know how?’ And he said, ‘Yea sure.’ Then he started to do the register. He hit all buttons but nothing happen. Ha ha. Next day I ask him, ‘You remember last night...
...terrorists, and maybe al-Qaeda is actually the 'B team.' And they're on the list and their time will come," Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said last September. "They have a blood debt to us,... and we're not going to forget it." Added an old counter-terrorism hand: "They're very good and very deadly. For whatever reason, they've stopped killing Americans." But if they decide to start again, U.S. officials dread their professionalism, training and discipline - and their penchant for particularly deadly suicide attacks. "They're military trained. They keep their military skills up," said...
Anti-choice activists might counter that the distinction I have drawn is irrelevant. They might claim a fetus is equally a human life at the moment of conception as it is eight months into a pregnancy. Philosophical questions about the origin of human life, however, are multifaceted and have been answered in different ways, at different points in history by different traditions. They are exactly the conversations that we must have with our own traditions to determine our own nuanced positions on abortion and cannot be answered with the automatic response that Harvard Right to Life might claim is only...
...likely be taken as a trigger for the "serious consequences" mentioned in Resolution 1441, even without a clause specifically authorizing an invasion. France and Germany have therefore both pointed to progress in inspections cited by Blix in the same report to argue against a new resolution and to present counter-proposals on a continued inspection process...