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...scarves again because of my slavish devotion to trends. Scarves have recently been featured on the cover of Vogue, draped around a rather sour-looking Keira Knightley. In France (and in more hipster-ish parts of the United States) it has even become popular to wear a scarf advocating Palestinian liberation, which I must say is very chic and somewhat ironic. The scarves of today, however, are very different than the weaselly scarves of yesteryear. They are large, usually in a bold graphic print with lots of fringe. This style could be hard to wear (cf. the Olsen Twins, especially...
Students discussed how an Israeli-Palestinian peace plan might become reality at a workshop organized by the Harvard College Progressive Jewish Alliance (PJA) last night...
...workshop was led by Daphne Lasky, a 2007 graduate of Middlebury College who spent the past summer in Israel examining the realities of the conflict and the possibilities for negotiations between the Israeli and Palestinian leaders...
...fall of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, the toppling of Saddam Hussein's government in Iraq, and its pursuit of a nuclear program that has the potential of being diverted into building an atomic weapon. Capitalizing on the failure of the Fatah party of Yasser Arafat to deliver a Palestinian state in negotiations, Hamas triumphed in parliamentary elections last year. Despite being under severe pressure from Israel, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the international community, Hamas recently seized military control of Gaza and continues to hold an Israeli soldier it captured in 2006. For its part, Hizballah not only drove...
...Bush Administration is not very inclined to reach out to Tehran, especially as it accuses the Islamic regime of secretly pursuing nuclear weapons with which to dominate the Middle East. But as the White House launches a major Israeli-Palestinian peace effort that will span Bush's final year in office, it has to ask whether achieving a peace agreement is wishful thinking doomed to further failure in the absence of a broader accord with Iran...