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...movies like the 2001 Brad Pitt thriller Spy Game are to be believed, the Lebanese civil war of the 1970s and '80s made the perfect backdrop for romance, chilled beer and good surf. Now Beirut's club scene offers a choice spot to get a taste of that cinematic vision: 1975, a tiny bar named for the year Shi'ite, Sunni and Christian militias sparked the 15-year conflict that devastated the city and killed thousands, including 241 U.S. Marines. It would be easy to miss 1975, tel: (961-3) 323 700, on Monot Street in Ashrafiyeh, one of Beirut...
...only blemish on a perfect opening weekend for Ivy football that saw seven of the eight league squads post victories, including six wins over Patriot League schools...
...nine meetings between the Quakers and Wildcats, Penn has claimed five, with its last victory coming during the Taft administration. In fact, the Quakers lost its best opportunity to beat Villanova by swapping the Wildcats for Lehigh during its perfect 2003 season...
...Although the storm is expected to hit the coast at Port Lavaca, between Corpus Christi and Galveston, the National Weather Service in Galveston warned that Rita could be a so-called "perfect storm", inundating Galveston and parts of Houston, including possibly downtown. Galveston residents started voluntarily evacuating Monday, a full five days before the storm was expected to hit. Wednesday, it became mandatory. Mindful of the problems in New Orleans, the city had buses available Wednesday morning to carry people out of the city. Early in the week, Governor Rick Perry recalled the Texas National Guard as well as Texas...
Studying the West is doubly important to Harvard because the courses that provide introductions to aspects of the West are perfect models for the ever-elusive Harvard College Courses on which Harvards new distributive requirements will be modeled. In an internally circulated report last semester, the Committee on General Education recommended that these Harvard College Courses be content based. Not only does this mean that they will not be like Core classes, it also means that theyll be disasters if their boundaries arent well defined. Imagine a course on global culture. Opponents of Western civ courses already criticize the fact...