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...story ended in “my translator is still in jail!” people would murmur words of support, but little more. Mallory Simon at CNN has been the only journalist to act in solidarity and maintain interest in Mohammed. Joel Campagna at the Committee to Protect Journalists has been an excellent and tireless resource...
...rushed to join activities, to date new people, to gather friends around me like life rafts to protect me against the incoming tide of loneliness. I worried about hours spent alone and phones that rang infrequently, and I became convinced of my own inability to be social and loved as one, and then another, and then another, budding relationship would fail. I watched my roommates succumb to depression as their fundamental ideas of themselves were shattered by the social demands placed on them at Harvard. Although we all enjoyed our classes, the one lesson we avowedly did not want...
...crises of this week help illustrate the paradox that is France; the volatile parliamentary government which crowns an economically healthy nation. According to Assistant Professor Stanley Hoffman, who teaches a course in French government and society, the present republic may not have effective power, but it knows how to protect itself and rebuff crises. The past days have seen Gaillard survive several...
...about the issue (prompted by countless meetings by many overreacting parents), newspapers and television spots put ideas into that many more sick heads. Just as paranoia builds on itself until the subject is immobilized, so the elaborate Halloween precautions may have spurred the very attacks they were meant to protect. Back in fifth grade, I used to ride the subway to school every day. Sometimes I would be scared—there were some pretty unpleasant-looking people on the uptown IRT. “You can’t go through life being scared of the subway...
...truism in politics: support for environmental causes tends to be broad, but shallow. Broad, because most voters support political action to protect the Earth, and not even the most conservative of politicians want to be seen as standing against it. Shallow, because few Americans really allow environmental issues to dictate their votes - and politicians know...