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...deal fall apart? The Democrats wanted guarantees that the G.O.P. would protect the deal in talks with the House's anti-immigration Republicans. The G.O.P. refused. That raised the possibility that House-Senate negotiations would result in a hard-line bill stripped of many of the Senate's provisions. Senate minority leader Harry Reid feared Democrats would be hurt in the November elections if they had to vote against such a bill. Republicans say Reid just wanted to deny them a legislative win they could use in the fall...
...AIDS denialism” of the South African government and accused Clinton and Gore of being swayed by drug companies. A “practical morality” in dealing with the issue, he argued, was critical. Any agenda to address AIDS, he said, would have to protect society’s “most vulnerable and marginalized members” such as young African women and be based on sound science. Achmat encouraged Harvard student activists to contribute to AIDS treatment at a Friday morning breakfast with members of the Harvard AIDS Coalition. He also offered to publicly...
...body medicine frontiers. His best-known work focuses on a capacity of the brain to develop and change throughout life. Using Tibetan monks as research subjects, he has shown how meditation can improve brain function. His studies may lead to therapeutic approaches for anxiety disorders and reveal ways to protect against memory loss and cognitive decline...
...decision-making.Whether these protests will succeed in the short-term, I cannot say. But the next time politicians start to brag about how tough they’ve been on the illegals, I sincerely hope they think harder about the thousands of young people marching in the streets, trying to protect their mothers and fathers. That might not be a revolution, but it is a start. Samuel M. Simon ’06 is a social studies concentrator in Eliot House. His column appears on alternate Thursdays...
...clear that Abdul-Mahdi would prove more likely to achieve this, particularly given his own party's connections to one of the primary offenders. Indeed, the Shi'ite parties, including SCIRI, point to the Sunni insurgency and the failure of the U.S. and Iraqi forces to protect Shi'ites from terror attacks as the reason they need their militias. With even ordinary citizens now arming themselves to protect their neighborhoods, moves to disarm any one militia may be treated as a sectarian attack on the ability of its community to protect itself...