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...still very much wedded to Pakistan. The country remains on the front line of terror. The situation is so bad that Musharraf and Afghan President Hamid Karzai have gotten into a tiff over who needs to do more to stop terror along their 1,470-mile, largely lawless frontier. Karzai said Musharraf should do more to contain the lawless tribal regions in the country?s north, while Musharraf has called for mining the border. Little wonder, then, the security situation in Islamabad, the national capital where the Bush-Musharraf summit will be held, is in a total lockdown with thousands...
...Harvard Crimson: You recently quit your day job working for the Electronic Frontier Foundation to become a full-time writer. Is this a dream you think more and more people can realize without the support of specific publications...
...HCCR this spring and the new curriculum passes—which is expected—the pool of potential candidates will be greatly and unfairly reduced. Any possible candidate who does not support the current incarnation of the HCCR would struggle to lead the College into its new academic frontier, and the dean of the Faculty must take on this role if the curricular review is to succeed. Additionally, the next dean, whose tenure will likely be defined by the accomplishments of a new curriculum, should not be burdened with even the possibility of implementing Kirby’s program...
...world, justice is the result of direct action, not of elaborate legality. A man's fate depends on his own choices and capacities, not on the vast impersonal forces of society or science. His motives are clearly this or that, unsullied by psychologizing (except, of course, in the Freudian frontier yarns). Moreover a man cannot be hagridden; if he wants to get away from women, there is all outdoors to hide in. And he is not talk-ridden, for silence is strength. Says Sociologist Philip Rieff: "How long since you used your fists? How long since you called the boss...
Despite its glass towers, sophisticated downtown eateries and swish nighttime skiing, Vancouver still has a frontier-town feel, and you can sense the culture clash in the work of artist Brian Jungen. On display in Jungen's hometown solo show at the Vancouver Art Gallery until April 30 are works ironically recasting mass-produced objects into indigenous artifacts, such as Indian masks constructed from basketball sneakers, as well as a sculpture that transforms cheap plastic chairs into a whale skeleton. Jungen, who was raised on Dane-zaa Indian land north of the remote logging town of Fort St. John, British...