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...group's accomplishments also dot much of the country, hinting at its nation-wide ambitions. Hizballah runs one of the country's finest schools, the Shahed (Witness) School--just a few minutes' walk from the Beirut barracks near the airport where a suicide bomber killed 241 U.S. servicemen in 1983. Children of Hizballah martyrs make up a quarter of the 1,000 students there, who are drilled in daily English classes. Another symbol of the new Hizballah is its al-Manara (Lighthouse) TV, which broadcasts news, soap operas, kiddie programs and with-the-guerrillas footage of attacks on Israeli fortifications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Man's Land | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

...that its unraveling grabs us with special power. Tony, the good-looking but rather clueless date, won't stop calling. He shows up unannounced in her office. There are signs he's watching her apartment. Soon Theresa has a stalker on her hands. And we have one of the finest, most disturbing American plays in years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Date from Hell | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

...serve as his model: without Division I basketball or football, there is no culture of manliness at Harvard. This should not come as news to Harvard women, caught between the devil of final clubs and the deep blue sea of Lamont Library. Elsewhere--think Mississippi--campus society puts its finest specimens of testosterone at the top of the pecking order. They are kings of their respective castles, showered with all the attention that would have been appropriate for a victorious army of yore. This phenomenon has its reasons: manliness, according to Tom Wolfe, developed from the "culture of the warrior...

Author: By James Y. Stern, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: The Wolfe in Chic Clothing: FM Examines Tom Wolfe's Dubious Masculinity | 4/6/2000 | See Source »

Harvard's medical, business and education graduate schools are the nation's finest, according to a just-released U.S. News and World Report survey...

Author: By Marla B. Kaplan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Grad Schools Top US News Rankings, Stanford Closes In | 4/3/2000 | See Source »

Imagine a whole summer out on the range, where the deer and antelope play. Just because Harvard doesn't offer an animal husbandry concentration doesn't mean you can't follow in the footsteps of one of its finest graduates, Teddy Roosevelt, Class...

Author: By Benjamin D. Grizzle, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Don't Fret, Get a Job | 3/3/2000 | See Source »

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