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There were tragedies in early April that affected innocent civilians. On April 9, joint extremist Irgun and Lechi forces captured the village of Deir Yassin and killed over 250 Arabs, mostly women and children. Already at the time, without waiting for 50 years, without American pressure and with no need for letterhead faxes, the official Zionist bodies expressed their execration of this act, which in their view went beyond the intrinsic savagery of war. Indeed, due to the singularly aberrant nature of the event, whenever the Arabs henceforward had something against the Jews, the banner `Deir Yassin' was raised...
...Harvard, Ph.D.s may be awarded only through a single faculty: the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). Other Harvard graduate schools, such as the Law, Medical and Business Schools, cannot award Ph.D.s in their fields of professional training except through joint programs with FAS granted by ad hoc committees. The highest degrees that our professional schools are able to award are other doctorates, such as the Law School's J.D. degree or the Medical School's M.D. degree...
...professional school. The Ph.D. is in such high demand nowadays that Harvard must do everything to create a carefully evaluated plan to attract leading Ph.D. candidates to its professional programs. This means granting the professional schools the right to grant their own Ph.D.s without the obsolete hassle of joint programs...
Though only a few cities, including New York and Los Angeles, have joint task forces that combine federal and city law-enforcement agents to head off terrorist attacks, local police in several other cities were meeting last week with federal investigators. The goal: combing their own intelligence files and strengthening their contacts with street informants who can give them early leads on potential trouble...
...Arnett will be reporting from the roof of the old U.S. embassy and the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Veterans' groups and congressional fact-finding delegations are swarming over the country. Instead of simply reliving the war, though, the visitors are discovering the new Vietnam, where rooftop satellite dishes and joint-venture hotels signal the emergence of one of the world's newest success stories...