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...Despite its lack of physical confrontation, the strikers’ nine-day effort was one of the most prodigious protests by Harvard students in decades. According to Crimson archives, the last time undergraduates held a multi-day hunger strike was in 1983, when a handful fasted for a week to call on the University to divest from apartheid South Africa...
...times,” Du said. “We’d often play a couple games here and there up to our potential, but then the next night we’d go out and we’d play very poorly.”This lack of momentum was perhaps most glaring in a November homestand against Princeton and Quinnipiac, the ECAC leader at the time.In the weekend’s first contest, Harvard, at that point the league’s last-placed team, shocked the Bobcats with some of its best play of the season...
...about the fall of 2003, a few months after the invasion, when it began to become clear - at least to those of us who were there reporting at the time - that a deadly insurgency was building, and that the United States was frittering away, mainly through ineptitude and a lack of manpower, whatever goodwill was there in the wake of Saddam Hussein's fall. (And there was a reservoir of goodwill at the beginning, even among the Sunni community in Baghdad, in the summer right after the invasion...
...begun. Al-Qaeda, however, isn't a country; it's a global terrorist group. It had something of a return address in Afghanistan, but doesn't now. According to U.S. military intelligence, it has cells in more than 70 countries, and at this point there seems to be no lack of radicals from the Islamic world to take the place of al-Qaeda fighters who are killed in Iraq. If North Korea ever attacks the South, there would not be a million Chinese troops (or anyone else) streaming across the Yalu river in support, as there were during the Korean...
...Lorand Matory ’82, now a Harvard professor of anthropology and of African and African American studies, remembers the University’s intransigence and the general lack of campus outrage as highly discouraging...