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...been for lack of trying. Israel's domestic intelligence service, Shin Bet, claims that in 2007 it foiled 29 suicide attacks. Some were near misses: last March, for example, a truck loaded with 220 lbs. (100 kg) of explosives crossed from the West Bank and reached Tel Aviv, but the driver lost his nerve and turned back. Hamas officials concede that Israeli operations have crushed many underground cells but insist that after Hamas won the Palestinian election in January 2006, its political wing abandoned suicide bombings in a fruitless effort to gain international recognition. Retired Brigadier Shalom Harari...
Students, however, see the lack of transparency of the Ad Board in a different light. The sentiments expressed by an upperclassman who served as a witness in a dispute earlier this year reveal the extent to which the cloaked nature of the proceedings alienates students. The secrecy, he says, is “just kind of a veil that they use to hide the fact that they’re not well organized, and they don’t actually spend much time on each case...
Pfister says that the Ad Board’s lack of transparency will be addressed by the Faculty Review Committee. “We should aim to make the process clear,” he says. “I think there is a little bit of a sense of it being cloak and dagger—how everything happens within that room, and it’s all bad. That’s probably not the case...
Every day after school, I would go over to my friend Jenny’s house. The only thing we had in common was the lack of an Italian ancestor. My athletically-challenged self was perfectly happy not hanging from the monkey bars or playing dodgeball at recess. I helped her with her math homework and she taught me how to play box ball. Every afternoon, after finishing homework (that I had mostly done on the bus anyway), watching “Dirty Dancing” or “Dave” for the 100th time, we would venture...
...back to cruising around in a vehicle with four wheels, thank you very much. I also eventually got over my lack of athleticism and started to learn Tae Kwon Do. If the universe were a place of poetic justice, I would be able to transport myself back to that day in the driveway and pull up in my black belt and matching black...