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Barak sounded his warning in the same week that South Africa marked the 20th anniversary of the decision by the then President F.W. De Klerk to free Nelson Mandela and begin negotiating an end to apartheid. It was certainly a courageous decision by De Klerk, but it's important to remember that it was not some epiphany about the immorality of apartheid that changed his mind. By 1989, with the Cold War essentially over, Pretoria had gotten the message that it could no longer count on U.S. support to head off sanctions and other international pressure in the name...
...very grateful to James L. Cavallaro and Nadejda Marques, who have been appointed as interim housemasters during our year away, for welcoming us to share Commencement 2011 with them. Currier is indeed fortunate to have Jim and Nadejda spending a year here. Associate Dean Suzy Nelson will announce their appointment tomorrow. Briefly, Jim Cavallaro has served as a clinical professor of law at Harvard Law School and executive director of the School’s Human Rights Program. Nadejda Marques is a research coordinator for the Cost of Inaction Project at the Harvard School of Public Health?...
...been 25 years since five teenage archetypes sat down together for Saturday detention, and their experience - as related in John Hughes' teen classic The Breakfast Club - is still having an impact. The film, which starred Molly Ringwald as the princess, Judd Nelson as the rebel, Emilio Estevez as the jock, Anthony Michael Hall as the geek and Ally Sheedy as the misfit, premiered on Feb. 7, 1985, and made instant icons out of its young cast members. "You see us as you want to see us, in the simplest terms and the most convenient definitions," Hall writes...
...After three loved and respected leaders from 1st Platoon - First Lieutenant Ben Britt, Staff Sergeant Travis Nelson and Sergeant Kenith Casica - were killed in a two-week period in late December 2005, the unit went into a tailspin of poor discipline, substance abuse and brutality. Green, however, was more noticeably and disturbingly affected than anyone else...
...While many men within 1st Platoon were having trouble adjusting to the casualties the unit incurred, the incessant pace of combat operations and the constant threat of violence, Private First Class Steven Green was reacting particularly badly. The day Nelson and Casica died, he had snapped. That was the when he gave up even pretending to support any notion of peace-keeping, society-building, or being nice to Iraqis. From then on out, all he cared about was killing them...