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...early evening bombing occurred along a narrow road between the southern Lebanese towns of Khiam and Marjayoun, four miles north of the border with Israel. An armored vehicle carrying Spanish UNIFIL troops was struck by a suicide car bomb that blasted the vehicle off the road and set it on fire. Six soldiers died in the blast and two others were wounded, according to UNIFIL. Near the UNIFIL vehicle was the twisted wreckage of a civilian car containing human remains. An initial report that the explosion was caused by a powerful roadside bomb was later discounted in favor...
...center of the storm, beneath a consistently positive manner. This woman is never, seemingly, out of control. How difficult that must have been is underscored by Winterbottom's portrayal of Karachi. The word "teeming" does not begin to describe this huge and jumbled urban mass, this warren of narrow traffic-clogged streets. Who is a friend? Who is an enemy? Who is corruptible, who is not? The idea of finding a kidnapped man in that environment seems to us hopeless...
...some educators believe that memorization is the key to intelligence? What about balancing the potential of the right brain with the left? Have developing creativity and encouraging imaginative thinking been put on the shelf? And what about the need to encourage integrity? The narrow-minded definition of what constitutes a bright human being is certainly altering the nature of the broader learning experience...
Harvard missed the chance to file a basic patent on the process of developing black silicon. When the scope of the discovery’s applications became clear in the year that followed that meeting, the University scrambled to patent a more narrow application of the process. It is not clear how much money Harvard forfeited...
...fashioned to imagine that Harvard is—or was, for us graduates—our time for intellectual reflection. Out of that undertaking comes a lurking sensation that has taken hold of me and many on the precipice of our exeunt from the academy: that the placid narrow-mindedness dreamt up at Harvard will not survive the turbulent outside world. Today, we should be anxious, but exhilarated, by the onset of a reality beyond the collegiate kind...