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...This motley assortment of social and academic diversions—the product of $25 million and a decade of continuous renovations—is as close as it gets to a student center at Harvard...
Concordia gained international attention for last year’s September 9 riot, which shut down the scheduled speech of former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. During the riot, a motley assortment of activists managed to occupy parts of the downtown campus, break windows and viciously taunt the speech’s ticket-holders. An elderly Holocaust survivor was reportedly spit on, while an Israeli flag was burned. As police barricades separated pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli students, I walked by with a first-year art history class on a museum trip. Having already survived one year at the cantankerous...
...Jeunib to a remote village in Biruen district in the north, I see a few dozen of some 1,000 soldiers he claims to lead. Though their AK-47s, strung with Acehnese flags, are antiques, their uniforms and army boots are box-fresh, making them better equipped than the motley GAM troops I have seen on previous visits. The new hostilities, says Darwis, will be "more brutal than in the past," and will be accompanied by a massive number of civilian casualties...
...first surprise came when he found the force, still colloquially known as “Yard Cops,” carried a motley assortment of mostly useless side-arms, and that none of them had ever fired their weapon...
LAST CHANCE JAM. The “Last Chance Jam” with the Harvard-Radcliffe Veritones will start your evening off with a talent show featuring a motley collection of Harvard’s premiere performing artists. Then enjoy a full set of the Veritones, featuring notoriously tight harmonies, infamously amazing soloists and a stupendously bizarre sense of humor. Friday, April 25, 8 p.m. Tickets $10, $7 students, available at the Harvard Box Office (617) 496-2222. Sanders Theatre...