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...emanate from a practice room in the basement of Annenberg Hall on a Monday night this spring. Inside the room, a line of Harvard students wearing what look like rubber rainboots stomp their feet, twisting, jumping and slapping at their cumbersome footwear. One student voices commands in a foreign tongue: encouraging words in varied tones and volumes. The group responds. Such performative exchanges—not to mention the boots—are a good indication of what makes the group distinctive. But the Harvard College Gumboots Dance Troupe is about more than performance alone. From South Africa, Gumboots...
...seemed only foreign correspondents and a few Germany commentators were asking, however. If any of the people in the sold-out opening-night audience at Admiralspalast felt a bit of angst about laughing at blond-haired Nazis singing "Europe, we're going on tour," they got over it pretty quickly...
...lawyers branded Yettaw a "wretched American." Inside the country, it can be easy to spot the foreign idealists masquerading as, say, tourists or teachers, who have made it their mission to change Burma. They whisper about regime change and seethe with political indignation. They talk about signature campaigns or the latest effort to get foreign parliamentarians to condemn the Burmese regime's odious behavior...
...still fighting two unfinished wars, in Afghanistan and Iraq, and trying to avoid another one, with Iran. But Pakistan--a country that has nuclear weapons and is falling into chaos--is becoming the Obama Administration's biggest foreign policy challenge. Richard Holbrooke, Obama's special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan, told Congress that the Pakistani President "should be treated as the leader of a country who vitally needs our support and whose success is vitally related to American interests...
...officers serve as judges and jurors (in cases that call for a jury) and the right to an appeal is not guaranteed. Unlike courts martial, which are mainly concerned with violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice by U.S. servicemembers, modern military commissions are generally intended to try foreign combatants accused of violating the laws of war. As it is with many war powers, the Constitution is vague about the scope of military commissions; legal wrangling over the extent of the commissions' authority goes back more than a century. In 1866, the Supreme Court said a military commission could...