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...helicopters barely touched the ground at the edge of Qubah long enough for 241 soldiers to leap out and begin moving into the town to go house to house in search of insurgents as artillery fire shattered trees in the surrounding palm groves. At the same time, a convoy of 19 Humvees, two Bradley tanks and several other vehicles rumbled toward Qubah from the opposite end. Gunfights broke out as soon as U.S. troops from the air assault reached Qubah's ruddy streets, with insurgents letting machine guns loose from several buildings. One U.S. soldier took a burst of fire...
...Jacob Walles, the U.S. Consul General in Jerusalem, meet with Palestinian finance minister Salam Fayyad, a former World Bank official and political independent. (After the Walles-Fayyad meeting, the State Department issued a statement declaring that "the U.S. will not suspend contact with individual Palestinians solely on the ground that they hold office in the unity government.") She will urge Abbas to work for "confidence building" moves towards Israel, such as the release of Corporal Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier seized by Hamas inside Israel on June 25. Then she'll shuttle over to Israel, pressing for similar gestures, such...
That future holds enormous opportunities. President Faust will oversee the largest expansion of Harvard’s campus since Pusey’s tenure. When Harvard breaks new ground in Allston, President Faust ought to emulate Pusey’s moral leadership and boldly assert environmental standards for a new century. Harvard is an academic exemplar sitting inside a “city upon a hill.” It will not have many chances to define itself in bricks and mortar like it will in the next few years. Its leaders must provide a vision of a sustainable 21st...
...After centuries in which men had the last word on how women's bodies were seen in art, it was finally the turn of women to see what to make of themselves. So Ana Mendieta, a Cuban refugee, traveled around the U.S. and Mexico making deep impressions on the ground in the shape of her silhouette. These she filled with rocks or flowers, making feminist earthworks that used a woman's body, not the steam shovels favored by the guys, to connect with nature...
...politician nor military man. He is a 54-year-old emigre who started his career running a translation company in France and made his fortune in the wreckage of the Soviet empire. He says Social Justice is not a political party. Rather, it was founded "to form a common ground for the non-privileged minorities who are the majority, for the people who were always kept out of power, who have no access to the new wealth, who have no protection, who are not patronized by the establishment." He styles himself a nagid or gvir, a traditional Jewish philanthropist-leader...