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...this year from an Israeli prison by kidnapping Israeli soldiers to hold as a bargaining chip, an act Hizballah pulled off two weeks ago, precipitating the current fighting across the Israel-Lebanon border. Smadar Haran, meanwhile, has found herself again directly affected by the conflict, albeit in a much milder way. Nahariya is just five miles from the border with Lebanon and was the target of many of the rockets Hizballah has fired into Israeli towns since Israel launched its bombardment of Lebanon to retaliate for the seizure of two of its soldiers. After enduring a few days living...
...whether it will keep the new committee next spring. But opponents of the amendment said that the committee would lack a clear purpose and would only add useless bureaucracy. “Students will see that this is a do-nothing committee,” said Benjamin W. Milder ’08. “You can’t just say that you’re going to liaise with students in the abstract.” Milder, who serves as the UC’s public relations director, said that a committee designated specifically for outreach sends...
...autistic children struggle to speak is something of a mystery. Many autistic children learn to speak late and only with intensive language therapy. Some never learn. This is not true, however, of those with Asperger's syndrome, a milder form of autism. Children with Asperger's tend to be almost hyperfluent-or as one such child put it to me in an interview, "I talk like a dictionary...
Similarly, after reviewing 38 studies of spanking, Robert Larzelere, a psychologist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, concluded that in children under 7, nonabusive spanking reduced misbehavior without harmful effects. Not only does spanking work, Larzelere says, but it also reinforces milder forms of discipline, so that children are more apt to respond without spanking the next time...
...Raymond Cross, HUDS director for finance and IT. Cross said at the meeting that HUDS would explore the possibility of meal pickup at Harvard’s athletic facilities across the Charles. Earlier this year, the subcommittee raised concerns about athletes missing meals due to extended practices. Benjamin W. Milder ’08, an Undergraduate Council (UC) representative and committee member, said the expanded bagged meal options would benefit students, but were not a sufficient long term solution to the UC’s demand for extended dining hall hours. “[The UC’s] goal...