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...each faith. The Latter Day Saints Student Association welcomed visitors with home-baked cookies and brownies and also provided copies of The Book of Mormon in several languages. The Harvard College Buddhist Community served rice pudding—said to have been fed to Siddhartha Gautama while fasting in order to reach enlightenment, according to Buddhist Community President Mihiri U. Tillakaratne ’09. Dharma, the Harvard Hindu Students Association, provided samosas, a traditional South Asian appetizer. While the Hindi faith does not have any holidays in December, the Hindu festival of lights, Diwali, took place...
...number of British TV sitcoms. British humor has always been a kind of a cliché in America, one with a tendency of living up to its stereotype. For example, “The Office” had to be translated into a Steve Carrell version in order for American audiences to buy in, and “Little Britain USA,” which also premiered around the same time as “Summer Heights High” on HBO, has had a mixed reception.Australia and America aren’t so different after all. Besides just...
...including future White House counsel Greg Craig, Attorney General nominee Eric Holder and Democratic Senate staffer Mary DeRosa, have been holding wide-ranging meetings to gather opinions about interrogation policy. Obama does not require Congress's approval to pull back on Bush's current interrogation policies, and an executive order reversing them could be released as early as next January...
...Thursday's rioting began after Israeli security forces launched a surprise raid on a house in the Palestinian part of Hebron occupied by settlers whose eviction had been ordered by the Supreme Court. Young settlers from the militant, although largely formless and leaderless Hilltop Youth movement had flocked to Hebron vowing to resist the eviction at all cost. If the court order was implemented, they warned, Israel would experience the trauma of Jew killing Jew. They also threatened that the price tag of an eviction would take the form of random violence against Palestinian innocents. But by catching the diehards...
...militant settler threat had prompted the Israeli government to hesitate for three weeks before implementing the court order on the Hebron eviction, but whether the raid emboldens the government to act against other settlements constructed outside of Israeli law remains to be seen - and will be determined, in no small part, by how events in Hebron unfold in the coming hours and days. The question may become somewhat moot if the current indicators on the likely outcome of February's election hold true, because Netanyahu has an ideological aversion to ceding territory in the West Bank and has made...