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...government, community and public affairs, who—in his first two years on the job—has focused more than his predecessor on improving ties with Cambridge communities. The success in Agassiz can provide a framework for dealing with residents of Allston, Harvard’s newest frontier...
...abundance of space. Here, unlike in Europe, the citizens could be united when they needed to and be alone when they wanted to. In an older, more crowded America, we find that space virtually--inside a screen, a book, a set of headphones. This is our last frontier, and it goes on forever...
...This month, the Bhutanese army went into battle for the first time, attacking 30 camps inside the country's southern border occupied by 3,000 separatist guerrillas from the Indian state of Assam. Simultaneously, the Indian army sealed its side of the frontier. (Some rebels also help smuggle weapons and people from China and Southeast Asia to insurgencies in the region.) By late last week, 92 guerrillas and 37 Bhutanese soldiers were reported killed in clashes, and hundreds of guerrillas, including some senior leaders, had been captured. Bhutan is apparently preparing for a sustained campaign. The King's 19-year...
When we meet Tom Cruise's Captain Nathan Algren in 1876, he's a wreck, drinking heavily to drown his memories of massacring Indians on the American frontier, lost in despairing cynicism. Then he's recruited to help train a modern army in Japan, the chief function of which is to put down a samurai rebellion against the new, dishonorable, Westernizing ways that his army symbolizes. In the first, brilliantly staged fight, Algren is captured by the samurai and sequestered for a long winter in their remote village, where there's nothing much to do but learn the harsh...
Wendy M. Seltzer ’96, staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which is providing legal representation for the plaintiffs, said she would still like to see Fogel rule on their suit...