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...Sept. 1 news article "Class of ’13 Vies To Show Talent" incorrectly attributed a quotation about whether the lineup for the Freshman Talent Show had too many heartthrobs to Gary L. Pelissier Jr. ’11, a co-coordinator of Freshman Week. In fact, that quotation should have been attributed to D. Patrick Knoth ’11, who is also a co-coordinator of Freshman Week...
...days, tributes have explored not only his legislative achievements, but also the many people he helped on a personal level. We have heard stories of families with all sorts of challenges, illness to unemployment to immigration, who received help from the tireless work of Senator Kennedy. Watching the local news in Boston, I have been overwhelmed by the long parade of citizens who have come forward to tell stories of their personal experiences of our senator’s generosity...
...more than a semicolon in a decade-long, run-on sentence of previously unimaginable financial growth. As I was 10 years old, it would be a stretch to claim that I was aware of the market’s rise that summer (whatever interest I could afford to the news was gobbled up by the much more interesting Monica Lewinsky). But with hindsight, the boom of the 1990s seem perfectly captured by that record-shattering season...
...vault. When the victims were released, their reaction shocked the world: they hugged and kissed their captors, declaring their loyalty even as the kidnappers were carted off to jail. Though the precise origin of the term Stockholm syndrome is debated, it is often attributed to remarks during a subsequent news broadcast by the Swedish criminologist and psychiatrist Nils Bejerot, who had assisted the police during the robbery...
Monday marks the end of August, a month with both good and bad news out of Afghanistan - and the approach of a key turning point. Civilian casualties caused by Western attacks have fallen dramatically under a new edict from General Stanley McChrystal barring air strikes that risk innocent deaths (19 killed since July 1, down from 151 in the same period of 2008). That's designed to show the Afghan people that the U.S. military is a force for good in their country. But at the same time, U.S. troop deaths reached 45 in August, making it the deadliest month...