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...deploy one inexperienced 23-year-old soldier to the frontline of a controversial war; whether your instincts are royalist or republican; if you are disturbed by the spectacle of Britain's usually tenacious media bowing to the wishes of palace, military and government, and suppressing a story - no matter what your response to the Afghanistan adventuring of Britain's warrior prince, it's hard not to feel sorry...
...entirely logical and un-ironic pursuit, is ubiquitous in our generation. Back in the 70s, people went awareness-raising because they wanted to shake up their complacent neighbors by doing something radical and “far-out.” Now everyone does it as a matter of course. There are awareness bracelets, awareness pins, awareness weeks, even awareness frying pans. And this long after other trends like the bell-bottomed pant and Richard Nixon have gone the way of the dodo. So what explains awareness’s continuing popularity...
...people actively interested in making certain that Harvard students have somewhere to go when they need assistance, this program of awareness may work. Harvard’s efforts to guarantee its students’ mental well-being often seem to rely overwhelmingly on good intentions and free Nalgenes. No matter how depressed you are, the logic seems to run, a free water bottle will inspire you to get up and be screened for depression! And what better way to cheer up someone just diagnosed with clinical depression than to offer him or her a free water bottle? In this sense...
...story. NCAA rules forbid contact by team staffers with recruits during the months in which the meetings occurred and also forbid recruiting by unemployed coaches on the behalf of a school. Blakeney’s actions are fishy at best and consciously rule-skirting at worst.Harvard should investigate this matter, as well as a more tenuous accusation that Amaker stalked a point guard prospect’s parents to a grocery store and illegally discussed recruiting with them, and I invite the NCAA to do the same. If Amaker or his staff members are guilty of any wrongdoing, the program...
...Israeli military officers say it is only a matter of time before one of the Russian-made Grad rockets, which have a range of 12 miles, lands in an Ashkelon schoolyard or an apartment building, causing heavy casualties. One Israeli military intelligence source estimated that Hamas has managed to smuggle several hundred of these rockets into Gaza. The Israelis also believe that Hamas may have acquired surface-to-air missiles, although none have yet been fired at the Israeli aircraft that control Gaza's skies...