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...Harvard affiliates were among the five Boston-area hospitals that received threatening letters Wednesday, a scare that prompted police and hazardous materials teams to rush to the scene. Police responded to reports of suspicious mail at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in the early afternoon. All the envelopes delivered to the hospitals appeared to be from the same sender, but police found no trace of powder, according to media reports and the Boston Police Department’s online log. The exact intent of the letters mailed to the hospitals remains unclear...
...came into contact with a liquid that would lead to accidental leavening. According to rabbinic law, once the flour is combined with water, matzo dough must be kneaded, rolled and baked within 18 minutes - otherwise it will begin to rise. Judaism takes its bread rules very seriously; in 2001, Israel's Interior Ministry even conducted raids on local restaurants to make sure they weren't serving leavened bread during Passover. (Read about the President's White House Seder...
...around the world. A tide of leftwing revolt in Latin America, China and Southeast Asia left much of the same sour legacy of totalitarianism. In India, the Gandhi family has towered over its democracy for 60 years. In the Middle East, after helping broker a historic peace deal with Israel in 1993, Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement quickly lapsed into authoritarianism and corruption. As a young man, Henning Melber, executive director at the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation in Uppsala, Sweden, fought in Namibia against white rule. Watching his fellow liberators turn on their own people once...
...calling for Israel to lift the blockade on Gaza. Do you agree? We've got to change this policy on Gaza. It doesn't work. Hamas gets what they want through the tunnels and civil society is put at a disadvantage. We've got to help the people in Gaza. I'd like to see humanitarian help in its broadest sense going in - that's not just food and fuel but also help in rebuilding infrastructure and houses. The Israelis obviously are concerned about anything that might have a security implication. But we have to distinguish between what...
...Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says that all these talks with Israel have yielded nothing. I think it's very simple. If the moderates on the Palestinian side show they can make progress by engagement [with Israel] they'll be strong. If they engage and can't make progress they'll be weak. It's an absolutely simple equation...