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...Israeli Army officer Michael B. Oren was breaking into a Gaza synagogue with a sledgehammer. At Emerson Hall last night, Oren, who is also a historian and a visiting lecturer at Harvard this spring, recounted the traumatic experience of dismantling Jewish settlements during the Gaza disengagement.The Gaza is a narrow strip on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea that—from 1967 until last August—was controlled by Israeli forces.But last August, Israel withdrew its troops from the Gaza and removed approximately 8,000 Jewish settlers from the territory.And last night, Oren transported a room...
...Summers? JR: I suppose it’s a certain impatience he has that’s most annoying. But I don’t think that’s at the heart of this matter right now. At the heart of the matter right now is his relatively narrow education which makes it hard for him to relate equally well to all the disciplines in the college and in the faculty. FM: But even if his education is narrow, he— JR: Well he’s a brilliant man. I’m not saying...
...potential to do projects the law school can’t,” McLoon said. Leaders of the HLS advocates agreed. “The College Advocates can provide insights from a variety of disciplines and can look at human rights advocacy from more than a narrow legal standpoint,” HLS Student Advocates for Human Rights Vice-President Zinaida Miller wrote in an e-mail. —ARIADNE C. MEDLER
...head when he learned to master his tunnel phobia, ACT is more than the sum of Hayes' experiences. As Hayes' anxiety condition improved in the '80s, he worked with scores of clients and students in his lab to develop the therapy. The lab did studies showing how humans narrow the range of their behaviors based on rules they hear, even in situations where rules hurt them. For instance, Hayes conducted experiments showing that subjects who could have earned more money for doing simple tasks (like moving a light around a small maze) didn't earn as much because they were...
...reason: a laboratory test found that chemicals in these foods can increase the levels of proteins that repair damaged DNA and so lower the risk of developing breast and prostate cancer. STICK TO PECKS ON THE CHEEKS Parents who want to keep their kids on the straight and narrow just got some support. According to a study published in the British Medical Journal last week, teenagers who French kiss with multiple partners quadruple their risk of catching meningitis. But we guess that most youngsters will reckon the odds worthwhile...