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...more than three months a small public garden facing the prominent Mostapha Mahmoud mosque in Cairo?s upscale Mohandessin neighborhood had been occupied by more than 2,000 Sudanese refugees. The refugees chose the garden because it faces the regional office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The leaders of the sit-in had one important demand: to be processed for transfer to a Western country. They refused any half-measure, especially being returned to Darfur in southern Sudan; or to be resettled in Egypt, where they say they suffer from discrimination and random arrest. The trouble...
Today, with U2 in town for a show at Madison Square Garden, Bono has the rare treat of staying in one of his homes, a three-story penthouse he purchased from Steve Jobs. (He also has places in Dublin and the south of France.) He lounges beneath a giant Christo drawing of The Gates (not Bill and Melinda but the Central Park installation), surrounded by art books. It's a lovely day to do nothing, but that's not really an option."I get very little time entirely alone," he says, moments before six people appear in the living room...
...Shuttles, in addition to being convenient, ensure student safety, and the author fails to mention the number of sexual assaults that have occurred along Garden Street in recent years. There are indeed worse things to imagine than “making it more difficult for Harvard students to avoid getting some fresh...
Adam Goldenberg’s column “Nightmare on Garden St.” (Dec. 16) offers a skewed, injudicious perspective on the opinions of Quad residents and the issues of Quad life. Below are responses to the author’s more flawed points...
...column “It’s the Funding, Stupid,” Goldenberg argues for evenly-distributed House Committee (HoCo) funds because Harvard cannot fully justify randomized housing when resources are not evenly distributed between Houses. Yet in “Nightmare on Garden St.” he contends that Quad residents’ needs should be ignored, even though they live in the Quad, as a consequence of the very same randomized housing system. Though equal HoCo funding is necessary to justify randomized housing, the author apparently believes equal student voice and equal access to academic...