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...Matt Sundquist will finally get a girlfriend...Both are going to require a lot of work.” —UC President Ryan A. Petersen '08 “I hope that the Harvard community will begin to show some serious concern for the fate of the Iraqi students and faculty whose lives are threatened. It is not a matter of abstract sympathy alone; we have it in our power and our immense resources to help in direct, practical ways.” —Cogan University Professor Stephen J. Greenblatt
...prisoners sentenced to death because they had not confessed their crimes. With each name the man / shouted at the top of his voice: ''Take him out! Immediate execution!'' His voice was an inhuman roar, charged with cruelty. The thought that this person was now in charge of my fate frightened...
...have never met him.'' ''Liu was one of them.'' It occurred to me that when a Communist leader fell from grace, all who had ever worked with him were disgraced. So there must exist in the No. 1 Detention House a number of men and women whose fate was linked to Liu's and who would be sympathetic to him. If my defending Liu would earn me better treatment, it was worth doing. Assuming an air of innocent stupidity, I said, ''Honestly, I still don't understand what Chairman Liu Shaoqi did wrong.'' ''You are not allowed to refer...
Beah escaped this fate and thrived, he says, through pure luck. But he's one of those very quick studies who could have succeeded anywhere. He learned to kill fast, and he learned how to blend in at an American high school fast. Even in Paris, he looks as relaxed as any tourist. Of course, what he did and endured has long contrails. His migraines have gone, but the faces of people on the street will sometimes remind him of people he killed and of the very bad days of his youth. It's not what he did, though, that...
...Rice disagrees with Bush's determination to hold the line in Iraq, there are no signs that she has tried to change his mind. But right now a military victory in Iraq is out of reach; at most, the U.S. is fighting not to lose. And so the fate of Bush's legacy, and perhaps even the future shape of the international system, may hinge on whether Rice can pull off some kind of diplomatic breakthrough in the 23 months she has left. "Condi has a very positive frame of mind in the way she looks at the world...