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Somewhere between 12 and 2 – Kirkland House Drama means more than just the unapologetic vulgarization of Shakespeare and Neil Simon plays. Harvard formals are sort of like proms, and just like in high school, sometimes tempers flare and feelings get hurt. Says one Kirklander and prominent member of The Crimson: “I’m too hammered and dateless for this...
...Mideast violence in recent years have produced a similar effect in France, which is home to Europe's largest Muslim and Jewish communities - populations of around 6 million and 350,000, respectively. The 936 anti-Semitic acts reported in 2002 and the 974 two years later coincided with flare-ups between Israel and Palestine. Those peaks - and perception among many Jews in France and abroad that French authorities had displayed insufficient concern or reaction - led Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in 2004 to denounce the "spread of the wildest anti-Semitism" in France. The only answer for French Jews, Sharon...
...There's little doubt that this flare-up - like Berlusconi's various romps on the world stage - reinforces rather than changes the opinions that Italians have of him, whether they're fans or foes. Paradoxically, the potency of Lario's critiques only highlights the weakness of Italy's center-left opposition, the futility of magistrates' failed attempts to send Berlusconi to jail on corruption allegations and the desperation of graying allies waiting in vain for him to step aside. Berlusconi's grip on power, in other words, is stronger than ever. (Read "Why Berlusconi Loves a Good Gaffe...
...Scores of people were injured and two were killed in two separate incidents on Monday. During the first pre-dawn flare-up, the government said the antigovernment crowds - known as the Red Shirts for their crimson-colored clothing - had provoked the conflict by lobbing Molotov cocktails at troops. The government claimed that 23 soldiers were wounded by the protesters; for their part, the antigovernment forces countered that the soldiers had fired at them and that six of their own had been killed by army bullets - a charge the military denies. (See pictures of the 2008 protests in Bangkok...
When the good news broke, Richard Phillips' ship, the Maersk Alabama, blew its horn three times in celebration from where it was docked in the Kenyan port of Mombasa. The crew also set off a red flare and unfurled a huge American flag at the top of the boat. Phillips, the Alabama's captain, had been rescued after nearly five days of captivity in a rescue operation in which three of the four Somali pirates holding him on a lifeboat were killed. The fourth was captured...