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...rancorous event that often challenged the moderator’s ability to keep control and drew strong reactions from the overflow crowd, Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz debated MIT linguistics professor Noam Chomsky on the Israeli and Palestinian conflict last night.The debate at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, which touched on issues such as the contiguity of a future Palestinian state and Israel’s commitment to peace, was highly confrontational. Dershowitz accused Chomsky of living on a fictional “Planet Chomsky” and Chomsky claimed that Dershowitz had misrepresented his views...
...front row of the church this past Palm Sunday, and drew applause from the congregants. The church, closed during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and reopened in 1980, also drew a brief visit in 1998 from then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. It often draws overflow crowds, some of whom have to settle for a closed-circuit TV relay of the service in a separate hall...
Although many restrictions go unenforced, most dining halls—all except the Quad Houses, Dunster, and Mather—have some sort of guest-restriction policy in place. Lowell House, which formally bars interhouse dinners, is considering adding lunch limits in light of recent overflow crowds...
...that the Law School has hosted two sitting Supreme Court justices simultaneously, according to HLS Communications Director Michael A. Armini. He added that it was also one of the school’s most popular gatherings, forcing dozens who arrived even 30 minutes early to file into a cramped overflow-seating room...
...further crumbling of the edifice that has guarded authoritarian regimes in the Arab world for half a century. They hope that Egyptian elections in November will produce a more representative parliament, and that voters will have a real choice in the next presidential contest, in 2011. After surveying the overflow crowd of 5,000 people at a rally in the northern city of El Mahla El Kobra, Maram Mazen, 19, a law student volunteering with the Nour campaign, was left brimming with hope. "It's a big step to have someone challenge the president," she said riding the campaign...