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Last week, two notorious speakers were invited to Cambridge to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At MIT, Dovid Weiss, a leader of the tiny, rabidly anti-Zionist Ultra-Orthodox sect of Judaism known as "Neturei Karta," participated in a panel sponsored by several student groups as well as by MIT’s School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. And at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Norman Finkelstein, an assistant professor at DePaul University, spoke at an event sponsored by the Palestine Awareness Committee, the Society of Arab Students, and other campus groups...
...That would be an unnecessarily enormous amount of intrusive government regulation if it weren’t for the increasingly obvious evidence that humans are causing global warming. Levine’s bill was overshadowed by the near simultaneous release of this year’s UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, a massive review of research by over 2,000 leading climate scientists worldwide. Since 1990, the IPCC has released four reports, and the current one presented the strongest conclusions yet: one, that global warming is real, and two, that it’s very likely...
...Still, as a military institution, the hospital has a responsibility to war casualties even after they leave the wards, a sentiment Defense Secretary Robert Gates stressed on Friday while announcing that an indepenent panel would indeed investigate the problems at Walter Reed. The wounded fight a daily battle long after they returned from war. With national politicians finger-pointing and calling soldiers the victims of bad policy, Building 18 was a scandal waiting to happen.It's a shame Walter Reed has let it overshadow the extraordinary care it has provided a generation of warriors...
...think of documenting health problems in the world’s less-developed nations as a path to financial success, but an impressive portion of the Harvard community did take notice of global health challenges on Feb 15. Over 100 students and faculty members attended a film screening and panel discussion entitled “Global Health and Journalism.” The event, sponsored by the Harvard Initiative for Global Health (HIGH), aimed to give participants a better understanding of ignored global health crises. HIGH is a university-wide organization with the goal of teaching a new generation...
...Lieberman is using his clout mostly in ways that discomfit his fellow Democrats, while his relationship with Republicans has involved more collaboration than coercion. When Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Bush's State of the Union proposal for a bipartisan terrorism panel was redundant, Lieberman, who supported the idea, privately sent Reid a letter saying he was "upset." Within days, Reid backed down and negotiated the panel's makeup with the White House. And last month, after Lieberman told Reid he had stopped attending the weekly Democratic lunch because he didn't feel comfortable discussing Iraq there, Reid offered...