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...certainly easy in terms of going home for vacation," jokes Cambridge resident Noam I. Weinstein...
Hebron celebrated the first day of 1997 with Noam Friedman, an Israeli soldier, emptying his assault rifle at a crowd of Palestinian civilians, wounding nine people. Fortunately, no deaths occurred as fellow Israeli soldiers restrained Friedman while he was reloading his rifle for another round. The shooting, which strongly resonates with Baruch Goldstein's Ibrahimi mosque massacre of 29 Palestinians, vividly illustrates the vulnerability of the Palestinian civilians in Hebron. The attack comes against a backdrop of the growing influence of Jewish fanatics and ultranationalists in the Israeli body-politic. The Jewish settlers community in the West Bank...
...microchip-driven, infrared-transmitting cards are programmable by the wearer, who is asked to input responses to five questions designed to triangulate one's heart, soul and Q rating. Sample question: With whom would you rather have dinner? a) O.J. Simpson, Marcia Clark and Johnnie Cochran; b) Marvin Minsky, Noam Chomsky and Jerome Lettvin; or c) Peter Gabriel, Laurie Anderson and Yo-Yo Ma. (I'd pick b, unless I was looking for a book deal...
...screwy, for a major-label band (Rage Against the Machine is on Epic, which is owned by Sony) with an Ivy League guitarist to decry networks, millionaires and capitalism, Morello says there's no contradiction. "There's no more or less irony," he says firmly, "than in buying a Noam Chomsky book at Barnes & Noble." And if Joe Hill were alive today--who knows?--he might well be on MTV right alongside Rage Against the Machine...
Eric M. Mindich '88, the head of risk arbitrage at Goldman, Sachs & Co., Ben Waldman '89, the manager of Macintosh Technology for Microsoft, and Professor of Mathematics Noam D. Elkies '87 were the Harvard alumni who made the list...