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...touched down on Tuesday at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, however, the band struck up Jerusalem of Gold, an anthem of Jewish attachment to the entire disputed city, whose eastern portion Palestinians want for their future capital. Israeli President Ezer Weizman, acting more as hardball politician than as statesman, described "united" Jerusalem as "the capital of the state of Israel and the heart of the Jewish world." The Pope responded with a lovely speech about the "profound emotion" with which "I set foot in the land where God chose to pitch his tent," then boarded a helicopter...
RESIGNED. Outgoing Taiwanese President LEE TENG-HUI, 77, as head of the Nationalist Party; after the stunning election defeat of the party's presidential candidate to opposition politician Chen Shui-bian; in Taipei. The Nationalists' first loss of power since Taiwan's founding in 1949 sparked protests and calls for Lee's departure...
...Last Wednesday, Harvard hosted Jane Fonda, an active supporter of America's totalitarian opponent in the Vietnam conflict (News, March 16). On Thursday, Harvard hosted Patrick Buchanan, a controversial politician with unpopular views (News, March 17). The contradiction in student reaction to the speeches and in your coverage of the speeches amazes me. Attendees of Fonda's speech warmly received her, and never questioned her about her actions in support of Ho Chi Minh and North Vietnam. Similarly, the news article neglected to mention that aspect of her past. Buchanan, on the other hand, was widely protested, and audience members...
...Harvard students and The Crimson should be ashamed at the amazing hypocrisy of protesting a politician with controversial views while praising an active supporter of a regime that tortured Americans...
...healthy? "You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy," H.G. Wells suggested long before the Net. "Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy, and unreliable--but teach him, inoculate him with chess." A Chilean friend quit the club and deleted the whole program from his computer after clicking on a whimsical feature that calculated "percentage of your life wasted on chess." (I paraphrase.) He found the number disturbingly high...