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Robert K. Lord ’08 was robbed at gunpoint at approximately 9:10 p.m. near his dorm Pennypacker Hall, according to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD). The suspects approached the 18-year-old as he walked on Harvard Street near Ware Street, talking with his girlfriend over his cell phone...
...However, upon taking Baghdad, our troops found Iraq to be harboring Abu Abbas, the Palestinian terrorist who hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in 1985 and killed a wheelchair-bound American named Leon Klinghoffer. He was killed presumably for being Jewish and his shipmates were forced at gunpoint to throw him from the ship. Currently, the leading terrorist insurgent in Iraq is Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, an international terrorist of Jordanian birth with ties to al Qaeda, who was in Iraq long before we arrived there. In April of 2003 U.S. Marines found terrorist training camp south of Baghdad...
Fans of The Smashing Pumpkins may blink at seeing former frontman Billy Corgan’s name amidst a bizarre depiction of a bear robbing a coyote at gunpoint on the back cover of his new book, Blinking with Fists, which he will be signing at Harvard Book Store this afternoon...
Police have warned students at Harvard’s Longwood medical campus not to walk alone at night after two women were raped at gunpoint in Boston over the last two weeks, one of them in Longwood’s Mission Hill neighborhood...
This administration’s strategy for imposing democracy at gunpoint is profoundly naïve and completely unsustainable. Invading Iraq has made it easier for extremists to associate democratization with chaos and occupation and to paint moderate reformers working for democracy within their own countries as stooges for Western imperialism. Moreover, as insurgents gain control over ever-larger swaths of Iraq, and the CIA reports that civil war is a distinct possibility, are we honestly expected, as Bush suggested this week, to view the Iraq war as a prototype for “the advance of democracy?...