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...that seven country tables...have been singled out for disciplinary action given that so many members of the LL.M. and JD communities were involved in this event,” the letter said, referring to the two different Law School programs. “Our intent was simply to honor an LL.M. tradition and to enhance a feeling of good fellowship amongst LL.M.s and JDs by sharing our local cultures with the Law School community.” While most of the students had not been formally charged until the last two weeks, they said they had received word...
Current and former occupants of Plympton Street are divided over a proposal to rename the street in honor of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former managing editor of The Harvard Crimson David L. Halberstam ’55, who would have turned 74 yesterday...
Think of it as the Japanese Mardi Gras. Held in May, the 350-year-old Sanja Matsuri festival brings 1.5 million revelers to Asakusa in eastern Tokyo to honor the three founders of the district's Sensoji - a Buddhist temple that is the city's oldest. The throng, more densely packed than any rush-hour train, is an unforgettable spectacle. Young and old are adorned in festive clothes, and pant with the effort of bearing dozens of mikoshi (portable shrines) through Asakusa's 44 residential blocks, while yakuza in loincloths proudly sport their full-body tattoos in a normally forbidden...
...that these men lacked the guts to put themselves in danger but that they worked in a system in which that sort of bravado wasn't necessary or even allowed. Hong Kong saw action realism as a badge of honor; Hollywood was the fantasy factory. And its action-film stars were such valuable commodities, they had to be handled like preemies. The studios were breeding these men for 20-to-30-year careers. Let them perform their most daring stunts? Nah, we have people who do that...
...Medal of Honor, President George W. Bush said at the White House on April 8, when he presented it to Monsoor's parents, is "awarded for an act of such courage that no one could rightly be expected to undertake it." The ceremony unfolded on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad and on a day of Senate hearings on the progress of the war. Half a world away, the streets of the Iraqi capital were empty under a military curfew to prevent car bombings. Down Pennsylvania Avenue, Democrats and Republicans competed over who could describe...