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...clad gates, Peisker decided to look beyond the Yard to broaden her education. Bidding farewell to her blockmates in Leverett House, Peisker took off on a year-long journey, spending the first half of her junior year living in Moscow and the second studying in a Ukrainian Greek Catholic university in Lviv.As support channels open up across the University, Harvard students are increasingly debunking the myth that study abroad and a Harvard education don’t mix. Last month, David Rockefeller ’36 donated funds that will be used by students to travel during the summer. Last...
...Athens RUNNING AMOK After police shot and killed a 15-year-old Athens boy during a Dec. 6 confrontation, protesters rioted in the Greek capital for nearly a week, battling law enforcement, setting cars ablaze and torching the city's Christmas tree (above). Fueled by frustration over unemployment and official corruption, thousands of Greeks smashed storefront windows and cars as union and transit workers staged a national strike. "It's very simple: we want the government to fall," a member of the Socialist Workers Party said on Dec. 9 as 10,000 people marched on Parliament...
...this one. “Bedlam” took its inspiration from a Ouija board and the contact with the dead it supposedly facilitates. Tracks like “Ouroboros” and “Askepios,” however, seem to make reference to figures in Ancient Greek lore. Though I have yet to decipher the connection between the biblical Goliath and these Greek figures, I can still appreciate The Mars Volta’s needlessly highbrow style. Keep up the good work. —Joshua J. Kearney is the outgoing Music Editor and an incoming Arts...
...protesters, including the dozens of ATMs smashed and banks set ablaze during the antiglobalization uprisings in Seattle in 1999 and Genoa in 2001. But Athens 2008 comes as the very words damaged banks have taken on a whole new connotation. Indeed, in the weeks before the violence began, many Greeks had expressed outrage at the government's $35 billion in aid to the nation's lenders at a time when one out of five citizens lives below the poverty line. And so, nearly a week after they began, the Greek riots offer the first tangible sign since the West...
Already, demonstrations of solidarity for the Greek protesters have arisen across European capitals. "We are mobilizing. Solidarity manifestation with Greek insurgents," declared the alternative-media website Indymedia, announcing a Friday rally at Greece's embassy in London. Eleven protesters were arrested Wednesday during clashes in Madrid and Barcelona, while Danish police took 32 people into custody during violent protests in Copenhagen. The Greek consulate in New York City was also attacked...