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...much-hyped “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week,” begun on Monday by conservatives on college campuses across the country, was met with resistance by Harvard students. While Islamic students took reactive measures, Harvard’s right-wing groups showed little interest in supporting the controversial campaign. Islamo-Fascism awareness events—sponsored and organized by conservative pundit David Horowitz’s Freedom Center—were held at over 200 colleges, including Brown, Dartmouth, and Columbia. But the controversial week did not receive promotion from any group at Harvard. Harvard Republican Club President...
...Zedong has wielded less and less individual power and has been forced to seek consensus on important decisions. Hu is no exception and had to make compromises. He failed, for example, to name Li Keqiang, his favored candidate, as sole successor. Indeed, Li trailed Xi onto the podium Monday, confirming a belief among analysts that, for the moment at least, Xi has a slight edge in the race to lead China. (If previous practice is followed and no unforeseen events intervene, Xi will succeed Hu at the 18th Party Congress in 2012, while Li will take over as Premier...
...Australian playwright and Harvard lecturer Christine M. Evans is not exactly looking to be uncontroversial.Evans, the Briggs-Copeland lecturer on English and American literature and language, is set to debut her latest play, “Weightless,” at the Perishable Theatre in Providence on Monday, Oct. 29. The play is about a family living on the top of skyscraper who don’t want to acknowledge that it’s slowly cracking apart beneath their feet.“It’s set in a mirror world, a distorted version of the current world...
...kind of uprooted and decided to start my life all over again, and now my life might be burning down,” said Holmes, who was evacuated on Monday morning, several hours after showing up for work at the Pali Institute, an education center in the San Bernardino mountains...
Sitting in the Lamont Library Cafe yesterday, Christina R. Ward ’09 looked at a Google Map feature that tracked the locations of the fires. She recalled a Monday afternoon phone call she had received from a high-school friend, who told her that Rancho Bernardo—Ward’s former school district—was “burning down...