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...recover from last summer's 34-day war between Israel and the Shi'ite militant group Hizballah, the government has seen its authority undermined, renewed meddling from the country's neighbors and the growing assertiveness of Hizballah. Organized by Hizballah and its allies, about 800,000 protesters--a rather grand figure in a country of just 3.8 million--gathered in the center of Beirut last Friday to demand the resignation of Siniora. At the time, Lebanon's leader was in his barracks, surrounded by machine guns and barbed wire...
...again, but the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has only one course in specific military matters—Government 1730: “War and Politics.” We have the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, but that is more focused on grand foreign policy machinations rather than military realities on the ground. The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government is on the right track—good liberals that they are, they’ve managed to realize that the military can be used for good ends, like stopping...
...himself. The photographs are respectfully left untitled and arranged in a narrative fashion similar to that of “Gardens of War,” the book compiled in 1968 by Robert G. Gardner ’48, who led the 1961 expedition.The exhibition follows inhabitants of the Grand Valley Dani through the cycles of daily life as shaped by war and its repercussions. While the structure of the show may be didactic, Rockefeller’s images are so compelling that it’s hard to resist comparing this self-proclaimed amateur to photographic greats. Bubriski himself...
...dead pig!) was THE place to be. At the Kirkland tailgate, an ’09er deliberately exposed himself to everyone’s favorite sex blogger. Impossible is nothing, literally. Phoho’s pre-Harvard-Yale Aleksey Vayner theme party featured a DJ, refreshments, and a grand total of zero guests. There was even more of nothing at the Pajama Party held at 45 Mount Auburn that Saturday night. Boston-based sororities and frats convened in the anarchy center dressed in little more than teddies and stilettos. The raucous gathering was shut down after a mere 45 minutes...
...grand as these reforms might be, they resonate on a much smaller scale with the individual students who anxiously pore over and proofread their college applications during the fall rush. Harvard institutes its changes on behalf of these nameless faces, with the aim of equalizing and enriching their experience. But while the admissions office can aim for equality on its end of a highly controlled process, it is impossible to hope for equity of experience in the pre-college lives of actual students...