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...Spartans under King Leonidas stood up to several thousand invading Persian troops, refusing to retreat and meeting certain death. But now their source is Frank Miller's graphic novel 300, the movie it inspired, or the video-game tie-in, not the original account by Herodotus. On one level this is lamentable, but at least this tale of extraordinary heroism lives on, and children continue to be moved by the self-sacrifice of the Spartans...
...choose to vote for Obama, Huckabee, Clinton, Romney, or “Other,” in order to prove young adults a powerful national force, we must vote. Admittedly, for Harvard students this may be less of an issue than for others (there is a positive correlation between level of education and voter turnout) but still—call home. Talk to your friends. Help them to register...
...While some foreign countries’ citizens enjoy a level of freedom similar to that in the United States, many are not so well-off. France and Spain are also, according to Freedom House, “free” countries, but Morocco is only “partly free” and China is “not free.” In Morocco, I learned that bars and coffee shops were “for men only” and that, as a woman, it was safer never to walk into one. I met Taiwanese women in Beijing...
Every Democrat on the New Hampshire ballots offers policies that comprise a sea change from eight years of the Bush administration, but only Barack Obama can move beyond the level of policy to reshape the political system in a way that puts the common good, rather than power struggles, at the forefront of policymaking...
...Palestinian issue, Israel hopes Bush can restore the momentum generated by the Annapolis summit in November, which has since flagged. Spokesman Regev says: "We want to make sure that the energy level of the peace process remains in high gear. We want the President to support Palestinian pragmatists who believe in a negotiated solution and to lay out clearly his vision of two states." In his Israeli TV interview, Bush said he wanted an agreement on "what the Palestinian state would look like" by the time he left office. Regev still believes that is an attainable target: "If the Palestinians...