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...step down. Peace in the Middle East will come only when each side develops the ability to empathize with its leaders as well as its hated enemies. Hwun-Yee Chen San Francisco Your report referred to a Palestinian minister who took Israel to task for not recognizing Arabs as equals and for seeking military solutions instead of political ones. What political solutions did he have in mind? The Palestinians elected Hamas to lead them, and the heroes of the Lebanese are their Hizballah warlords. Both Hamas and Hizballah are loudly and proudly dedicated to the destruction of Israel. Steve David...
...body-only-please mattresses—subsidized with funding from Currier’s summer tenant, the Graduate School of Education—Currier students have an opportunity to finally break free from the suffocating lasciviousness that previously defined them. With narrower mattresses, Currier can stand as an equal with such greats as Dunster, Winthrop, and Lowell, whose residents maintain celibacy by sleeping in wobbly bunk beds wedged into walk-through triples. If the river houses hope to maintain their scholarly edge over the formerly unbridled Currierites, they will need to invest in their own spoon-free mattresses...
...neighbors in Barbara and Charles Blum's Hershey's Mill living room is all ears. Sestak explains that the military provides universal health-care coverage and substantial educational benefits-"I was able to get a Ph.D. from Harvard," he says-and it has also been a pioneer in providing equal opportunity for all, including women and minorities. "Every military officer is a Democrat because he or she believes in investing in people," he concludes with a flourish...
...because it explores ideas and practices,” wrote Sommer in an e-mail. “Change,” she said, “depends on innovation and ways to refresh existing material.” Sommer will also be leading a workshop for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunities Commission, a federal agency charged with overseeing anti-discrimination law. She hopes to develop a similar program at the College. —Staff writer Nicholas A. Ciani can be reached at nciani@fas.harvard.edu...
...Google, and Apple?s Steve Jobs, vied for a piece of the Segway pie and did their bit to hype the machine before its anticlimactic launch. Doerr told TIME that Segway would become the fastest company to hit $1 billion in sales. Steve Jobs ventured its impact would equal that of the PC. If Segway has sold only 23,500 machines to date, it's hard to see how it could even have made back the $100 million spent developing the device...