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Students seeking to be “strong to the finich” like Popeye the Sailor Man by eating their spinach are going to have to find an alternative source of iron...
...Blood and Iron Alfredo Stroessner, the durable military dictator of Paraguay from 1954 to 1989, died last month at age 93. Ten years after the general seized control in a palace coup, TIME discussed why Paraguay's past had made it vulnerable to Stroessner's brand of despotism...
...Literature department–or maybe that’s just the cigarette smoke. Lit’s got a rep for being one of Harvard’s more esoteric concentrations, filled with artsy Advocate-ians and worldly European ex-pats who spend all day at the wrought-iron tables outside Boylston Hall, arguing about Kafka in a dozen foreign languages and smoking whatever’s at hand. But don’t stress—the passport and drug habits are all optional. Literature is for those who want to study the—surprise...
...Graham is adamant that the interrogation program is "a thing of the past." One or both of the competing bills may come to the floor of the Senate as early as the end of this week. For now, at least, it appears it will take more than the Iron Lady to compel the Administration opponents to back down...
...regime's own long war with Islamic extremists is heating up again. In 1982, the regime of Assad's late father, Hafez, obliterated sections of the Syrian city of Hama, killing an estimated 20,000 people, to quell an uprising by the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood. The Assad dynasty's iron rule has kept the lid on discontent for most of the time since. But during the last few years, new attacks seem to herald the return of violent extremists. Just three months ago, in one of the Syrian capital's most prominent public squares, four gunmen were killed trying...