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Andy Tiedemann, a spokesperson in the development office, said no Harvard students have called to object to the bin Laden fellowships...
...hold an airport, raid a terrorist camp, or snatch a top target. But military analysts are bluntly realistic about the challenges facing them. In a sense, the U.S. military is a victim of its own success. The Gulf War, says Charles Dunlap Jr., an Air Force colonel, "was an object lesson to military planners around the globe of the futility of attempting to confront the U.S. symmetrically, that is, with like forces and orthodox tactics." The attacks on the World Trade Center were classic examples of "asymmetric" warfare, using small fanatical teams to inflict maximum psychological damage on a chained...
...apologize to the BOND membership and to any lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgendered students (especially closeted ones) for giving the impression that Harvard is a place in which the LGBT leadership is in bed with those who object to us acting on our attractions and emotions...
...poignant tale, as multifaceted as the crystal sphere from the opening credits, is rendered beautifully in the more than capable hands of Scott Hicks. An example of Hicks’ impressive and insightful direction involves his use of glass, mirrors and photographs as motifs to indicate the distance between object, observer and the accuracy of perception. Bobby drifts into his past while gazing through a glass windowpane in his childhood bedroom. On the other hand, photographs, although the camera itself provides distance for Bobby, seem to indicate an exactitude of perception. Bobby’s clearest image of his father...
...point is not to march for peace and justice “if you must.” The point is to march for peace and justice because you must. In a democracy, concerned citizens have both the right and the obligation to object when their government pursues wrong-headed policies in their name. Since even the few genuine progressives in the Democratic Party won’t sound a discordant note in the deafening media-Pentagon chorus, it’s all up to you. You are one of the few flickers of light and hope in this ever...