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...whale wars continue - and even seem to be worsening. In January a vessel belonging to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a group that tries to disrupt Japanese whaling on the high seas, was badly damaged in a collision with a Japanese whaling ship. On March 12, the Japanese Coast Guard in Tokyo arrested Peter Bethune, a member of Sea Shepherd, after he tried to board a whaling ship without permission in February. Yet Sea Shepherd - the subject of the popular Animal Planet reality show Whale Wars - isn't holding back. "Nothing is going to keep us from trying to save...
...shirts were really tasteless and heartless," said Meghan J. Smith '13, one of the pranked freshmen. "I don't know what kind of group would do this. [9/11] was a tragedy for thousands of people, and not only did it effect students around the world, but even students who go to Harvard...
...When the group who was doing the trick came to our room, we were just so excited that we found out we 'got into' Leverett," Kurcz said. She and her blockmates later found out that they had actually been placed in Currier...
...Other groups have laid down specific rules that keep them from working too closely with certain governments or rebel groups. Among the most prominent is Doctors Without Borders. The French arm of that group was, in fact, expelled from Ethiopia during the famine in the 1980s when it criticized the government for forcibly moving some of the population and manipulating aid. The group now makes a point of delivering as much direct aid to those in need as possible, rather than working through governments or what it calls "armed actors." This week, it went after NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh...
...going to divulge it for fear of jinxing my blocking group,” he said...