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...droves. This season’s clash developed much differently than last year’s 8-1 decision in favor of the Bantams. Harvard proved it had improved, keeping the match close throughout. The match seesawed back and forth for the entire night. Seniors Siddharth Suchde and Ilan Oren won their matches in the top two positions. However, the competition ultimately rested on the outcome of the match at the seventh flight between sophomore Niko Hrdy and Trinity’s Supreet Singh. The Crimson almost completed the upset, but in the end, Singh bested Hrdy and gave...
...anger and searing loss. And gradually the vocabulary of the Palestinians' struggle changed. Today Palestinians speak less of a battle against the Israelis for land and rights than of something vaguer and more dangerous, framed in the apocalyptic terms of a holy war. The 1967 conflict, says Michael Oren of the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, the author of a book on the war, "hastened the downfall of Arab secularism and opened the doors to the new idea of Islamic radicalism." In Jalazon, Omar al-Nakhla...
...Oren argues that America cannot find a solution to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East because the tripartite mindset of power, faith, and fantasy is often self-contradictory...
...same faith that deflected [Woodrow] Wilson from entering hostilities in the Middle East spurred Bush to decide in favor of the war,” Oren writes. While Wilson’s deep-felt Christianity caused him to adopt a pacifistic attitude, President Bush, partly inspired by the attacks on the World Trade Center, has followed what Oren sees as a “crusader” ideology...
...Oren himself seems slightly torn as to whether or not his glass is half full in regards to American policy. Although his book shows that American policies and principles have been “cataclysmic,” he concludes that by “consistently upholding its principles, the United States might yet transform its vision of peaceful, fruitful relations with the Middle East from fantasy into reality.” Oren, however, gives no evidence to show that this transformation is any more realistic than Disney’s “Aladdin...