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Writing in The New Republic this week, Leon Wisseltier confessed that as he watched the returns from New Hampshire earlier this month, he could not help but feeling “rather stirred by the one from Arizona.” He was referring, of course, to John McCain, the veteran Arizona senator who after a summer of campaign ups and downs has made a miraculous recovery, finding himself once again a major contender for the Republican nomination [see correction below...
January 18's staff editorial "McCain for Republican Nominee" stated that Leon Wisseltier was the author of a piece in The New Republic. In fact, the author's name is spelled Leon Wieseltier. The Crimson regrets the error...
...huge impact on how people get their late-night snacks,” he said. Yesterday, workers milled in and out of Holmes Hall, which houses the grille, scrubbing floors and carting equipment outside. The grille was slated to open in October, according to Pforzheimer Building Manager Mario E. Leon, but delays in the arrival of custom-made items kept the doors closed longer than intended. Over the past six months, the grille was equipped with new countertops and frying equipment and received other minor improvements, according to Mary E. Collins ’08, the student manager...
...systematic crudity of these civilizations has cropped up in the writings of our most revered and canonical of writers—even John Stuart Mill, for instance, noted that for cultural reasons On Liberty did not apply to India. While no longer painted with the deliberate mysticism of Jean-Leon Gerome’s French salons, the argument claims that Orientalism continues in strains of intellectual imperialism. The Orientalism thesis has spawned much critique. Experts on the Middle East and historian Bernard Lewis deems it “intellectual protectionism” to think that only people who are part...
...Viet Tan identified its arrested members as Nguyen Quoc Quan, 54, of California and Leon Truong, 54, of Hawaii, both U.S. citizens born in Vietnam. French-Vietnamese writer and activist Nguyen Thi Thanh Van, 51, and ethnic-Vietnamese Thai national Khunmi Somsak, 58, were also arrested. The activists' respective embassies said they are now trying to find out what law they are accused of breaking...