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...Lady Laura Bush's snubbing of Ahmadinejad made me queasy [Oct. 8]. It is that holier-than-thou attitude that gives America's enemies more ammunition. I don't wish to condone Ahmadinejad's policies, only to say that we will get nowhere by childishly ignoring him. Eventually, no matter how much it deflates our self-esteem, we will have to begin an open dialogue with our enemies. There are too many to simply dismiss them as tyrants and ostracize them from the global community. Currently, our only policies for dealing with hostile nations consist of sanctions and military action...
...event sponsor, Microsoft, said Kevin Shee ’10, director of the HIMG Harvard Gaming Initiative. The software giant provided prizes, some gaming equipment, and even plastic drinking cups. “We’re here to try to create a gaming environment in which anyone, no matter what video game background one comes from, will have a good time and have fun,” said Shee, who was also declared the tournament winner and awarded $400. The event offered unorganized gameplay all throughout the night. Five projector screens offered Halo 3 and a fifth screen offered...
...Avec Nous” was an intense experiment—the dancers performed to poetry rather than music. But although it presented an interesting premise, the Central Square show was not uniformly successful and at times evoked feelings of discomfort with its raw emotional content and powerful subject matter...
...Craig Foster that brought the margin back to one goal at 4-3. “We all made mistakes out there today,” Taylor said of the miscue. “[We were] shaking the rust off, and it didn’t matter if you were a freshman or a senior.” A series of penalties in the third period resulted in each team enjoying well over a minute of 5-on-3 play, but neither was able to capitalize. Harvard managed to pull away in the game’s final minutes, picking...
...were entering. The first Bali suicide bomber blew himself up in a nightclub filled with foreigners on vacation. A second suicide bomber outside the nightclub blew himself up in a van. The intent was to kill as many people as possible. It not only didn't matter to al-Qaeda that it was killing civilians, but it also didn't matter that many of the victims were Muslim Indonesians; it was indiscriminate slaughter, which was in fact exactly what they wanted...