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Early Thursday morning, deep in the bowels of Harvard University Science Center’s abandoned no-man’s land, something stirred. Students were alarmed and upset when they arrived at the building for their Thursday morning classes to find it roped off with security tape and evacuated...
In fact, the cease-fire has allowed Sadr to purge his militia forces, some of which had been hijacked by criminal gangs running lucrative kidnap-for-ransom schemes. The indiscriminate thuggery had damaged Sadr's reputation among average Iraqis. So had the perception that Sadr was an Iranian stooge. Some...
Stability had been Suharto's gift to his country. He had come to power at the head of a junta of generals in 1965, overthrowing the country's flamboyant and charismatic first president, Sukarno, whose friendship with Beijing and predeliction for Communists in the government had brought the country to...
Gross, a Princeton professor who left Poland in 1969, having been expelled from college the previous year during an anti-Semitic purge of 1968 student dissidents, has returned to confront the country of his birth with some uncomfortable truths.
What an odd article. It left the impression that the Israeli security fence is somehow responsible for the tensions between Bethlehem's Christians and Muslims and the emigration of Hamad's Christian friends. Unmentioned was the unremitting pressure from Islamic extremists to purge the city of its Christian residents. Christians...