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...pages of The Crimson (standard fare for the controversial magazine) but also readership in University Hall, where the president and other members of the Harvard Islamic Society (HIS) sat down with Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd and S. Allen Counter, the College’s de facto diversity czar, to discuss the whether the back-page image adhered to standards of journalistic ethics...
...Generally, it’s very difficult for a challenger to unseat an incumbent,” Robert Winters, creator of the Cambridge Civic Journal and de facto dean of the Cambridge political scene, writes in an e-mail. According to Winters, it has been three election cycles since an incumbent lost a seat...
...suggested a massive aid package, “in effect a mini-Marshall Plan.” Dershowitz also advocated Israel’s controversial security fence, which he claimed is an effective barrier against terrorism, as well as a valuable bargaining tool. He argued that, as the de facto boundary between the two states, the fence encourages the Palestinian leadership to come to the negotiating table to seek a better solution. However, he said that such a solution should be less generous than the concessions offered at Camp David, in order to avoid “rewarding [acts...
...clinic, has grown into a complex of buildings that includes operating rooms, a pediatric and maternity ward, a laboratory, a blood bank, an eye-care facility, a 100-bed hospital and a school. Built around a central courtyard, it feels less like a clinic and more like a de facto town-- one that treats up to 400 patients a day, educates 4,000 migrant children and even issues birth certificates and marriage licenses...
...describe a website where you could post daily scribblings, journal-style, about whatever you like--mostly critiquing and linking to other articles online that may have sparked your thinking. Unlike a big media outlet, bloggers focus their efforts on narrow topics, often rising to become de facto watchdogs and self-proclaimed experts. Blogs can be about anything: politics, sex, baseball, haiku, car repair. There are blogs about blogs...