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...former assistant and deputy chief of staff to President Clinton challenged the notion of a guest worker policy for America during her speech at the JFK Forum last night, advocating that immigrant workers should be able to choose whether or not to stay...
...discussed in the U.S. ever since the Abu Ghraib case, when American military personnel tortured Iraqi prisoners at the Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq. Roth said that two Harvard professors—Alan M. Dershowitz, Frankfurter Professor of Law, and Juliette Kayyem, a lecturer in Public Policy at the JFK School, have advocated the legalization of torture in the United States. Roth said that they might have the best intentions in mind, but that they overlook crucial problems in their proposal. Instead of focusing on torturing terrorists to make them talk, the United States should fight terrorism by combatting active...
...neighborhood where diners often have to wrestle for Saturday night seats, Harvard Square restaurants are now themselves playing musical chairs. Finagle A Bagel will transfer its 14 JFK Street location and liquor license to Z Square Cambridge, a new restaurant and cafe that plans to make better use of the eatery’s 6,000-square-foot space. Finagle A Bagel is not leaving Harvard Square though. It will relocate to a smaller storefront on Mass. Ave. that previously housed the pastry and dessert area of C’est Bon Café. C’est Bon, meanwhile...
Although the film's director is Oliver Stone, this is no paranoid panorama on the order of JFK. It's a boy-down-a-well saga with, insists first-time screenwriter Andrea Berloff, "no politics. This is a small story. We're in the hole with these two guys for practically the whole movie." With the digging out comes the uplift. "I hope people will walk out of the theater and say to themselves, 'Life is short,'" Jimeno says, "and go home and hug their loved ones." Berloff has the same aim. "You don't want people leaving theaters slitting...
...real life, we arrive at most of our political beliefs in far more prosaic and less deterministic ways: a family allegiance, a yearning for JFK's youthful exuberance or Ronald Reagan's telegenic optimism. And the weight of the evening news - a disaster, a war - probably shapes ideological loyalties far more often than some overstimulation of our pleasure centers. Political choices, in other words, are at once more complicated and more obvious than lab-coated investigators give us credit...