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...skies here were dark when Thea L. Sebastian ’08 published the first issue of Freeze back in December of 2005. The campus media industry was at the height of a feeding frenzy, with ambitious young editors starting new publications left and right for reasons that ranged from dim careerism to boredom to thick, bloody hubris. The situation was demoralizing: most of what was falling into the doordrop was either shabby or sprawling, boring or depraved. One magazine had a photo spread featuring models but you could tell by their eyes that their bones were hollow.Freeze came...
Junior Clara Blattler was one of two scorers in the pole vault for Harvard, clearing 3.65 meters to tie for fourth. Co-captain Sally Stanton was eighth in the same event despite clearing the same height, as ties were broken based on number of misses...
...intervention to restore order in Sierra Leone a year later--emboldened Blair to think that in certain carefully delineated cases the use of force for humanitarian purposes might make sense. As far back as 1999, he had Iraq on his mind. In a speech in Chicago at the height of the Kosovo crisis, Blair explicitly linked Milosevic with Saddam Hussein: "two dangerous and ruthless...
...Israeli counterterrorism officials, understanding the mind of a Palestinian woman suicide bomber has become an urgent priority. Since 2002, 88 Palestinian women have attempted suicide bombings, though just eight have been successful. Most were conducted during the height of the second Palestinian intifadeh, before Israelis launched a punishing war against terrorism and erected a security "fence" to separate themselves from the Palestinians. Since November 2006, Hamas, the ruling Palestinian party, has intermittently observed a "truce" with Israel. But on April 25, the militant wing of Hamas announced that it had abandoned the cease-fire. The militants oppose a move...
...Royal, for her part, did precisely that. Her dander ran highest after Sarkozy argued that handicapped children in France should be integrated into normal schools. Royal said it was "scandalous" and "the height of political immorality" for Sarkozy to make such a proposition "with a tear in your eye" when the conservative government he has served in for the last five years, she claimed, suppressed the teaching positions that would have made such a policy possible. Sarkozy tried to turn the exchange to his advantage by intoning that the responsibilities of the presidency are "very heavy" and that using words...