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...Jerusalem since 2006, says he felt a sense of dj vu as the Gaza conflict unfolded: his arrival in the region coincided with the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier by Palestinian militants, Israel's bombardment of Gaza and the subsequent war against Hizballah in southern Lebanon. "My lament, shared by everybody around here, is that even with this latest bloodletting, it doesn't appear that Israelis and Palestinians are coming closer to an understanding, not even one based on sheer exhaustion," McGirk says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Covering the Holy Land | 1/8/2009 | See Source »

...Staff writer Elias J. Groll can be reached egroll@fas.harvard.edu. CORRECTION The Jan. 7 article "Students, Faculty Lament Departure of Popular Dean" incorrectly implied that Harvard Law School Professor Jack L. Goldsmith supported the United States' use of torture as the head of the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel. In fact, while members of the office had produced memos condoning the use of torture, Goldsmith left the office in protest over what he considered a flawed legal justification for the government's actions...

Author: By Elias J. Groll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students, Faculty Lament Departure Of Popular Dean | 1/7/2009 | See Source »

Shrek, to be sure, has its moments. The ragtag collection of fairy-tale characters, from Pinocchio to the Three Bears, who are evicted from the kingdom by the pint-size despot Lord Farquaad, do a bouncy lament for their sorry plight, "Story of My Life," that is a high point, even if the screechy characters wear a little thin as the evening goes on. Composer Jeanine Tesori (with lyricist David Lindsay-Abaire) has supplied a few other cute numbers, most of them straightforward Broadway pop but with an occasional blues-rock beat, as in the funny, flatulence-enlivened love duet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shrek Comes to Broadway: No Happy Ending | 12/18/2008 | See Source »

...future. But Sylvester said that closing the health center made some sense to him. “I’m told the clinic is hemorrhaging money, [and] if that’s the case, what can CHA do?” Sylvester said. Patient Leif H. Norderg did lament the fact that his doctor will no longer be located at a clinic attached to the senior center, which is where he spends most of his time. “I have read a memo describing where else I can go, but it’s not here where...

Author: By Bora Fezga and Sarah J. Howland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Clinic To Close On Christmas Eve | 12/15/2008 | See Source »

...This was a television campaign. Everything that happened was exaggerated. Everything was focused on," observed Davis, in what was either a mild lament for the accelerating news cycle or buried criticism at his campaign's ability to keep internal discussions secret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Campaign Postmortem at Harvard | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

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