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...outfit that "commutes to war" in armored pickup trucks from their Kuwait City villa, braving ambushes and enemy fire to help ferry convoys and cargo along Iraq's perilous highways. Some--like Jonathon Coté, a former paratrooper who plays practical jokes on his comrades and doles out toys to local kids--earn their paychecks and adrenaline rushes with honor. Others are renegade cowboys with AK-47s, issuing pronouncements like "I want to kill somebody today" the way one might propose dinner plans. Punctuated by a kidnapping with awful consequences, Fainaru's harrowing exposé illuminates a $100 billion industry "where death...
Members of the local community reached out to orphans in China through the third annual Harvard China Care benefit dinner and silent auction at the Lenox Hotel in Boston last night. Guests paid $80 per ticket to attend and bid on a wide variety of prizes, including pottery from Texan artist Murry Gans, tickets to the American Repertory Theatre, and select services pledged by many of the club members themselves. The proceeds from the benefit this year will fund the maintenance of the Children’s Home in Bao Ji, Shanxi province, which opened last November. With the help...
...Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, popular discussion buzzed around everything from child psychology to the conceptual validity of “separate but equal institutions.” By the time that ruling was handed down, however, the decision boiled down to one fact: State and local laws that segregated American citizens on account of their race violated the constitutional promise of equality...
...event was hosted by Cambridge Forum, a local public affairs radio program, and was recorded for later broadcast on National Public Radio...
Shane P. Donovan ’09 and Adam S. Travis ’10 noted that the local homeless tend to have high school diplomas, and that the majority are either parents or young children...