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...colors is so commonplace a formality at sporting events across the country that the casual or visiting fan among the 1,537 that packed Lavietes Pavilion that night—including former Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Bill Cowher, whose daughter Meghan stars for the Tigers—could be forgiven for not noting the novelty of the occasion.Friday night’s color guard, however, was the first at a Harvard athletic venue in many years. Four students in uniform marched in step to center court, two standard bearers, one holding the American flag, another the flag of the state...
...Amid the ongoing bloodletting among Palestinians in Gaza - nearly 30 have been killed since fighting erupted last Thursday between gunmen of Hamas and Fatah - Israelis could be forgiven for thinking that Palestinians were too distracted to launch attacks on Israel. But the bakery attack was a grotesque reminder that some Palestinian groups still have Israel locked in their sights - and the authors of bombing may even have hoped to send a message to Hamas and Fatah, locked in a murderous power struggle, not to lose sight of their principal...
...Australian art. Crombie helped define the moment, co-curating 1990's "Twenty Contemporary Australian Photographers: From the Hallmark Cards Australian Photographic Collection," and 17 years later the medium she returns to is quieter and less declarative. Walking through "Light Sensitive" at the Ian Potter Centre, one could be forgiven for thinking that the era of the defining image has passed. Pictures prefer to slink from easy definition: neither one thing nor the other. Rather than being a cop-out, though, it's perhaps a simple acknowledgment that life is more complicated...
...Kadima party are fast sinking; a poll last Thursday showed that 77% of Israelis disapprove of Olmert, whom they perceive as weak and shifty. Nor is America as obedient to Israel's demands as it was when Sharon was giving bear hugs at the White House. Sharon could be forgiven for thinking that without his leadership, the Israeli body politic had also lapsed into a coma...
...Have you forgiven the Indonesian government for its 24 years of brutal occupation of East Timor? We already did in 1999 when [East Timor's capital] Dili was still burning and we could still smell the destruction. For us [the occupation] was a historical mistake...