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...foot anywhere near the Yard this past weekend? If so, then you probably saw the crowds of dressed-up high school kids scampering around taking photos, playing football, and reveling in Harvard’s grandeur. Of course, none of these fawning high schoolers could have been mistaken for one of us world-weary college students facing the fourth week of psets and paper deadlines...
...only a few teams and individuals could take home trophies . For the full results and ballots for all the rounds (and perhaps to reminisce about your storied high school past), click here...
...order to give context to the disembodied desire of his two lovers, Aciman references a bygone European past, but manages to trivialize it by reducing it to a simple, romantic picture of the Old Country. Both Clara and the protagonist come from an Eastern European, Jewish background and move about in a world with scattered references to Dostoevsky, Rilke, Rohmer, St. Petersburg, Bellagio and Byzantium—one that is faded around the edges like a sepia photograph...
...Nobel Peace Prize winner, is in her third period of house arrest, totaling nearly 14 of the past 20 years. The military, which has ruled Burma for nearly half a century, has promised elections this year, though no date has been set. The NLD has yet to decide whether it will participate in the elections, which are already being criticized in some quarters as a sham because Suu Kyi has been barred from taking part and her party's activities have been severely restricted. In Burma's last election in 1990, the NLD won in a landslide, only to have...
What most in the opposition agree on is that the massive crackdown on Revolution Day was at least a tactical victory for the government. While the opposition had in the past been able to mount at least symbolic challenges to the regime on state-sanctioned holidays like Jerusalem Day and religious events such as Ashura, despite the superior power of state security forces, this time the government was much more successful at preempting activism. In the run-up to Feb. 11, the government arrested scores of would-be activists and organizers, scared off many more by promising swift retribution...