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SAMANTHA POWER A Harvard University professor, her book on genocide won a Pulitzer Prize in 2003 I nominate Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk. He has acknowledged his homeland's genocide against the Armenians and nearly got himself arrested before the Turks decided their commitment to and pride in their greatest writer exceeded a commitment to killers who died almost a century ago. It could bring a cultural change. Also George Clooney, for the obvious reasons, and the students who led the divestment movement on campuses for Darfur...
...season with a match against Hay rival New Jersey Tech on Saturday afternoon. And though the Crimson knows that its season will soon be over, having lost twice this season to the Highlanders will be motivation enough. “It’s a matter of pride,” McKiernan said. “They’re always cocky, and we’ve lost to them twice this season.” We’d rather be playing for the playoff spot, but we’re going to get really fired up for that...
...have a sense of pride because [founder] Mark Zuckerberg represented us in a respectable manner,” said Robert J. Ross ’09. Ross said that if the site changes ownership, “I don’t think that would prevent people already on Facebook from using...
...Merkel bent over to kiss the bottom of a George W. Bush figure; this year she had undergone a makeover into a motherly barkeeper, huge breasts enveloping her coalition partner, apparently loving him - and Germany - to death. From figure of fun to Mother Germany, from electoral liability to the pride of her party and country - what has the Chancellor done to effect this transformation? To be sure, after an election campaign in which she blew a 20-point lead, there was nowhere to go but up. The same goes for the grand coalition which, at its inception, inspired more skepticism...
That an Islamic hard-liner has inspired such pride among even secular, Westernized Iranians says everything about the political climate in Iran today and shows how Ahmadinejad has transformed himself from a lightly regarded ideologue to a national hero. In recent months the President has used the escalating standoff over Iran's nuclear program as a platform for broadening his appeal at home, framing the West as an enemy bent on weakening Iran by denying it legitimate access to technology. Indeed, many observers believe that Ahmadinejad is reacting to the masses' increasingly assertive mood as much as he is stoking...