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(2 of 2) Such measured comments have not stopped the excitement whipping across Kurdistan. "For us, new wells are very, very important," says Falah Mustafa Bakir, senior aide to Kurdish Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani, over coffee in Kurdistan's capital, Arbil. "It is the future, our means of prosperity." Sarbez...
In 43 years, Crimson coach Harry Parker has seen almost everything.But a varsity loss to Princeton on the Charles? Not even Parker, the legendary coach of the Harvard varsity heavyweights, could claim to have witnessed that in his four-plus decades in Newell boathouse.Until Saturday, that is, as the No...
The pictures they received were arresting and regularly heartbreaking: the pomp, circumstance and pageantry so characteristic of the historic solemnities staged by the British monarchy, but with a contemporary difference, both hip and humanizing, that marked Diana's singular imprint on the House of Windsor and on the world's...
What do you believe to be true even though you cannot prove it? Last night, three Harvard professors, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor, and a Tufts professor provided their own answers to this question before a crowded audience in Askwith Lecture Hall at the Graduate School of Education...
Especially in an election year, the continuing corruption scandal is a big embarassment to Lula, a man whose measured discourse and conservative fiscal policies marked him as Latin America's moderate alternative to radical, anti-U.S. leftists like Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. But amazingly, it has done little to...