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What is the “little nameless object” that the Newsome family manufactures in the fictional town of Woollett, Mass.? Joshua L. Glenn, who writes for The Boston Globe, says the answer is toothpicks...
...cancellation of a speech by Tom Paulin, who advocated the murder of Israelis. I defended, pro bono, a virulently anti-Israel Stanford professor who was fired for inciting violence. I opposed Harvard’s attempt to prevent students from flying the Palestinian flag to commemorate the death of mass-murderer Yasser Arafat...
...were awarded the prestigious full scholarships to Oxford University, which include in their criteria “literary and scholastic attainments,” “success in sports,” and a commitment to service, morality and leadership. Blattler, a resident of Brookline, Mass., has a resume that includes a Harvard record and an Ivy League championship in pole vaulting, a place in the pit orchestra playing violin for Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Mikado,” and summer research trips to Namibia for her concentration, earth and planetary sciences...
...Glenn will be joined on The Crimson’s masthead by the managing editor-elect, Paras D. Bhayani ’09, and the business manager-elect, Gideon L. Lowin ’09. The Crimson, founded in 1873, is the only daily newspaper in Cambridge, Mass., and the oldest continuously published daily college newspaper. It chooses its leaders through an election process known as the “turkey shoot,” in which all outgoing editors are invited to participate. A successful candidate must receive at least 75 percent of the vote. The other newly-elected...
This has been a crisis nearly three years in the making. It began with the assassination in February 2005 of Rafik Hariri, a former Lebanese Prime Minister. His death, which many Lebanese pinned on neighboring Syria, triggered mass demonstrations in Beirut which, along with U.S. pressure, forced Damascus to end its direct domination of Lebanon. A Western-backed government was elected in June...