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...Palestinian experience offers an additional important pointer - and so does Lebanon. Both demonstrate how if democracy is to function as a counter to terrorism, then the process must make space for organizations that have previously chosen the terror option to compete for power in legitimate institutions. Hezbollah is currently the single largest party in Lebanon's parliament, having parlayed the widespread legitimacy enjoyed by its military campaign against the Israeli occupation, which ended in 2000, into an important share of the political pie. Today, the Lebanese opposition is all too aware that Hezbollah is effectively the political representative of Lebanon...
Biweekly Pub Nights are not enough. With their success, hope ought to be rekindled among Harvard undergraduates that Memorial Hall's cavernous gut might soon be converted to serve a permanent function. Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross '71 take notice: the success of Pub Nights is as clear an indicator as any that Loker Commons can be a real center for student life with the right adjustments. A permanent campus pub would anchor such a centersomething that this campus has sorely missed for centuries...
...often hard to catch the lyrics, but Kinkopf’s voice has a timbre that allows it to function as a lead instrument of sorts...
LESSON 1: FUNCTION OVER FORM...
...this happen? No one is quite sure. It could be related to less access to abortion providers, but more likely it is a function of declining teenage pregnancies, more widespread use of contraception, abstinence programs and cultural shifts toward sexual restraint among young women. None of these strategies separately is a panacea, but each has a part to play. So what's the new pro-choice line? Let's keep up the progress. Let's defend the right to an abortion while doing all we can to ensure that fewer and fewer women exercise it. Leave the contentious issue...