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...boys’ jaws dropped and they cringed in sympathy. More laughter ensued with the less-than-brilliant simile that followed: “the thought of the sharp needle...hit Steven like a fist...
...Down the Road.” The very next song, a dirge-like take on Springsteen’s anthemic ‘Thunder Road,’ is sung with a more familiar half-smiling sorrow, but something still seems amiss. With the image of Springsteen in mind, fist pumping and voice rising, the song carries a unique ironic appeal, but on its own it seems constrained and impotent, as if forced on the musicians by someone else. The album has its moments, however, and they tend to be those that are, ironically, a little less brave and bold...
...easy. To deliver on its promise to improve security, Hamas will have to rein in the myriad paramilitary groups that Fatah and Arafat set up. Confrontations seem inevitable. "The problem is not in carrying arms but in misusing them," says the Hamas military commander. "We will use an iron fist against those who misuse their weapons." The situation is even more volatile because Fatah members blame Abbas for the party's poor election showing. Thousands of angry Fatah supporters demonstrated late last week to call for his resignation, and Fatah gunmen stormed the Palestinian parliament. Isolated and weak, the President...
...spring break, more than 70 Harvard undergraduates will participate in an exchange program with Asian universities as part of an annual trip organized by the Harvard College in Asia Project (HCAP). Students will be going to conferences in Bangkok, Beijing, Singapore, and Tapei this March—marking the fist time that HCAP will be going to Thailand and Singapore, according to HCAP President Jonathan D. Einkauf ’06. Since its founding in October 2003, HCAP has connected Harvard students with students from Asian universities. Every year, Asian universities send their students to Harvard on an exchange trip...
...fold. If Moscow were to shut off the oil, Lukashenko's regime would collapse. But for now, the ornery President holds off another democratic revolution on Russia's borders. Lukashenko does that the old-fashioned way. Every corner of the 208,000-sq-km country comes under his iron fist. He personally appoints all officials from ministers and regional governors down to village store managers - who are fired or arrested if they fail to deliver. The Batska's authority does not rest on a monolithic party but on a personal ideology, such as it is, based on his own proclamations...