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...lighthearted roast that included testimonials from singer Carly Simon, President Bill Clinton and “Seinfeld” co-creator Larry David, the Jewish National Fund honored Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz for his legal acumen and “unshakable” advocacy for Israel. In a video prepared for the event last Thursday, David kicked off the ceremony by recounting a Martha’s Vineyard poker party last summer in which Dershowitz was unable to distinguish between a straight and a flush. “I’m sorry to burst your bubble...
...during the Civil War. "A country dignifies itself ... when it remembers those who have suffered, like those Spaniards who so unjustly had to leave Spain," the Prime Minister said in May. His government has also backed other efforts: to rename streets named after Franco, and to remove statues that honor him. Spain's Minister of Culture, Carmen Calvo, believes that this new engagement with the past is a sign that her country has grown up. "After 30 years, Spanish society is mature enough to engage in a conversation about what really happened," she says. Political-science professor Paloma Aguilar...
Martin isn't the best known of America's straight-up fantasy writers. That honor would probably go to upstart Christopher Paolini (Eragon), or Robert Jordan (the endlessly turning Wheel of Time series), or better yet to ageless grandmistress Ursula K. LeGuin (A Wizard of Earthsea). But of those who work in the grand epic-fantasy tradition, Martin is by far the best. In fact, with his newest book, A Feast for Crows (Bantam; 784 pages), currently descending on bookstores and ascending best-seller lists, this is as good a time as any to proclaim him the American Tolkien...
...your back is against the wall, a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do.” Charles takes this maxim to heart as he heroically attempts to avenge Winston’s murder and to reclaim his family’s honor and his money in pursuing Laroche (complete with dramatic soundtrack, slow motion shoot-out scenes and the nod of the saintly Giancarlo Esposito). Thereby, “Derailed” proves that cheating is really bad, but taking law and order into one’s own hands is just...
Representatives from two prominent campus political groups came together in front of the Science Center yesterday to rally support for U.S. troops in Iraq—political opinions on the war notwithstanding—in honor of Support Our Troops Week. Members from the Harvard Republican Club (HRC) and the Harvard College Democrats convened at noon to display posters, distribute pins, and promote student support for the troops in Iraq. “A lot of the time the rhetoric gets pretty heated when people say that they’re against the war but they support the troops...