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...murder of as many as 30,000 people during the military dictatorship between 1976 and 1983 - could be prosecuted as a result. With President Nestor Kirchner in favor of sweeping away the protection, only the Supreme Court could stand in the way of future convictions. Safe and Sand MALI Fourteen hostages were freed after being held for up to six months in the Sahara desert by Muslim extremists. The nine Germans, four Swiss, and one Dutch national were captured in southern Algeria by the radical Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, which is allegedly linked to al-Qaeda. The German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 8/24/2003 | See Source »

They say this year saw a particularly high yield on tenure offers—three-quarters of those offered tenure have accepted. Fourteen offers have yet to be accepted or declined...

Author: By Elisabeth S. Theodore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Faculty Hiring Targets Younger Scholars | 6/5/2003 | See Source »

Sixty-three of the candidates earned their diplomas summa cum laude in their field of concentration, 54 magna cum laude with highest honors and 430 magna cum laude in their field of concentration. Four hundred fourteen earned cum laude (formerly known as cum laude in general studies), 476 cum laude in their field of concentration, and 145, slightly more than 9 percent of the class, received non-honors degrees...

Author: By Yailett Fernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard To Give 6,349 Degrees | 6/5/2003 | See Source »

Marjane Satrapi spent the first fourteen years of her life in Tehran, as the daughter of well-educated, middle-class, left-wing parents. At the beginning of "Persepolis," she recalls her early obsession with becoming God's new Prophet. Practically personifying her country's sacred-secular struggle, she would decree that their maid could eat at the table with them and that her father's Cadillac would be banned. While her parents demonstrated against the Shah, Satrapi would march around the backyard with her friends, pretending to be Che Guevara. Like Satrapi, I was nine when the Shah fell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Iranian Girlhood | 5/16/2003 | See Source »

...Fourteen of the Crimson’s 25 turnovers came in the first half...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Lacrosse Falls in Kleinfelder’s Farewell | 5/5/2003 | See Source »

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