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...Nasrallah may be hoping to convince the leaders of other factions to put the issue of Hizballah's militia on the back burner, arguing that it's a necessary hedge against any Israeli intervention. He may eventually even pursue the same option as have the Kurdish parties have in Iraq, maintaining their private militias on the basis that they'll be nominally integrated into the national army. Many in the Lebanese opposition may be inclined to accept this proposition, at least for now, not allowing the issue of Hizballah's arms to detract from the broad support for Syrian withdrawal...
...life, though, it does. (See those November results, above.) If these gay writers are inclined to think creatively about love and identity, maybe it's because they didn't have the option of accepting the standard assumptions. Growing up gay, says Six Feet Under creator Alan Ball, "you have a pretty deeply ingrained sense of being an outsider. You don't swallow the mythology of pop culture hook, line and sinker because you know it's not true, for you, anyway...
...bungle by his solicitors, he says, locked him into making child support payments that rose if his income increased, but stayed the same if it fell. Sure enough, he was retrenched from his high-paying job and for a few months received unemployment benefits. Filing for bankruptcy was an option, but there was a catch. After five years a bankrupt receives automatic discharge from nearly all debts, though one exception is child support. Fortunately, Rob landed...
...Office for the Arts (OFA) sponsors a ceramic program that offers classes for all members of the Harvard community at all levels of experience. The classes usually charge a fee, but scholarships are available for those with need. Students with experience can also choose a drop-in option for $50, allowing them access to the studio and materials on weekends. For those unsure of the appeal of wet clay, the ceramics program hosts a Clay All Night party once a semester. According to Jessica S. Hoy ’07, undergraduate coordinator for the ceramics studio, Clay All Night...
Summers apologized, telling his critics that the memo was supposed to be a “sardonic counterpoint, an effort to sharpen the analysis” and that he had not been advancing a serious policy option. The week after the story broke, the Economist came to Summers’ defense, editorializing in eerily familiar terms that if Summers “was merely trying to provoke debate,” “it is to be hoped that he succeeds—and that the Bank does not, instead, go silent on the subject...