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Harvard College Democrats President Jarret A. Zafran ’09 said he was contacted by Mark Gall, the president of the Italian organization, who told him that the group wanted to use their collected frequent flier miles to send Harvard Democrats to campaign for Obama...
...anyone else. Rather, we should turn Columbus Day into a holiday that honors all American peoples. In Berkeley, for example, Columbus Day was already replaced with Indigenous Peoples Day in 1992. In parts of Latin America, Columbus Day is celebrated as Día de las Razas to mark the beginning of modern Latin America as a mix of indigenous, Spanish, and other populations. It is a liberating thought to turn the holiday into a celebration of all the peoples that make up America today, when for so long it has stood for just the opposite...
...didn’t know until afterwards what the survival rate was [for his type of cancer]—it was always ‘there’s this new treatment, this great treatment, this promising treatment,’” said Mark A. Isaacson ’11, one of Friedman’s roommates. “He had this way of keeping things in perspective, putting friendships first, people first.” Though he took his studies seriously—he went to class until the day he was admitted...
...make a solid appearance at the Big Five Classic in Philadelphia this weekend. Nearly every player’s scores plummeted on day two, earning the Crimson a ninth-place finish ahead of both Cornell and Penn, the host of the tournament. A standout performance by freshman Mark Pollak anchored the team. With individual scores of 71 and 77, the recruit was the only player not to blink on day one. “My game had been finally turning around, and I was pretty confident going in,” Pollak said. “I kind...
...Among top military and diplomatic strategists, the failure of the current approach in Afghanistan has been accepted as inevitable. Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, Britain's top military officer in Afghanistan, has said, "We're not going to win this war." At best, he says, international troops can hope to reduce it "to a manageable level of insurgency that's not a strategic threat." U.K. ambassador Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, in a leaked diplomatic briefing with the French deputy ambassador, is said to have described the current situation in Afghanistan as "bad; the security situation is getting worse - so is corruption...