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The fracas began when Thomas N. Saunders ’02 wrote to Throptalk on behalf of council candidate Ariel Z. Weisbard ’02. In his e-mail, Saunders singled out candidate Thomas J. Mucha ’03 for criticism.
While on New Year’s holiday in Japan I read of the fracas around Lawrence Summers and Cornel West and the broader issue of race relations at Harvard. That the University should have to make international news in this way was disconcerting to me.
Q: Would you care to comment about your Sunset Heights fracas?
Now the dynamic may be shifting once again. The immediate diplomatic objective of the Palestinian leadership is the deployment of international observers to monitor the implementation of the Mitchell Report. The U.S. endorsed the Palestinian proposal three weeks ago - but only on the condition that both sides accept such observers...
The latest exchanges come on top of two attempted bombings in Jerusalem and a mortar attack on Israeli settlers in Kfar Darom in Gaza. But in the realm of perceptions, no event in recent months carries quite as much symbolic power as Sunday's clashes in the Al Aqsa mosque...