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This wall has nothing to do with security. When we drove from Ramallah to Tel Aviv (departing for Cairo), we were stopped only once as soldiers merely glanced at our American passports. In other words, we traveled from Ramallah to the capital of Israel with no obstacle, yet it took us three hours to travel to Nablus, and nearly an hour to walk through the humiliating Qalandiya terminal to get from Jerusalem to Ramallah. Israel has built a wall not to keep others out, but to keep the Palestinians imprisoned within; it is a manifestation of sheer domination. The wall...
...always used to tell me, even a broken clock is right twice a day. Our testosterone-soaked brains have done this world some good over the years, and I have no doubt that this will continue. Who do you think invented the internet? Some guy whose testosterone-soaked brain drove him to create the information superhighway so that he could instantly access girls and football scores. Eric A. Kester ’08 is an anthropology concentrator in Winthrop House. His column appears on alternate Thursdays...
...just plain luck play a role too. Perhaps the greatest ambition a person can have is to be a complete human being. That's what I will teach my children. Todd R. Lockwood South Burlington, Vermont, U.S. I wish that your article had featured ordinary folks whose ambition drove them to be successful physicians, caregivers, inventors and scientists - people who actually work to keep humankind alive and functioning. Here's to the B-team players! Bill Lenters Rockford, Illinois, U.S. I enjoyed reading your article about ambition as I lay on my sofa munching popcorn. I'm now working...
...region where free elections are about as common as leprechauns. In recent weeks the bombing of a Shi'ite shrine, the bodies dumped in shallow graves, the girls blown up on the way to school, the dwindling faith not in U.S. abilities and intentions but in Iraq'sall drove down support for the war again...
...gives you a real sense of relief knowing that you don’t have to be perfect,” Watkins said. With the score knotted at 8-8 in the top of the seventh, Murray’s two-out, two-RBI single drove home the decisive runs, closing out a three-run inning. Harvard’s 14 hits were the most of the season to date. Vertovez picked up her second win of the season, pitching the last five innings of the contest in relief. —Staff writer Brad Hinshelwood can be reached...