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...last few years have held out the promise that the market would go up year after year. This was never an assurance which could be kept. The people who made it took their cash out two years ago and live in an island off the south of France...
...joke is just not as effective in this age of diversity.” On the day the e-mail was sent out, interns from Dartmouth’s Pan Asian Council and representatives from the Inter-Community Council, Diversity Peer Advisor interns, and a member of the GGMM held an emergency meeting to discuss the fallout from the e-mail. While the GGMM writer who sent out the controversial e-mail remains anonymous, GGMM writer Courtney A. Davis apologized for the incident. “The students of the Generic Good Morning Message list-serve take full responsibility...
...Harvard’s most attractive boys of the Asian Persuasion duke it out for the honor of being the hottest Asian male on campus.” The winner will go on to compete in a Boston-wide pageant for hot Asian dudes held at Wellesley...
...months since that blast, the rebirth of Mutannabi Street has also been well documented by both journalists and politicians. With its Ottoman architecture and once lively trade, it was a picturesque and perhaps obvious barometer for the city. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki held a reopening ribbon-cutting ceremony at the end of last year. The image he hoped to project was that Baghdad was no longer a city where intellectuals were marked for murder, where university professors lived in fear or fled. The idea was that Baghdad was increasingly a safe and functional place. Which it is. There...
...Friday after he was inaugurated, Barack Obama held a full-scale National Security Council meeting about the most serious foreign policy crisis he is facing - the deteriorating war in Afghanistan and Pakistan. "It was a pretty alarming meeting," said one senior Administration official. "The President was extremely cool and in control," said another participant. "But some people, especially political aides like Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod who hadn't been briefed on the situation, walked out of that meeting stunned." The general feeling was expressed by one person who said at the very end, "Holy...