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CHINESE NEW YEAR BANQUET. Kick off the year of the Ram with the Chinese Students’ Association 2003 banquet, which includes catered dinner and fruit teas. Featuring traditional and non-traditional performances by groups from Harvard, Brown and Beijing University. Dress code is semiformal. Saturday, February 15, 8:30 PM. Leverett House Dining Hall. Tickets (which go fast): $10 in advance at the Harvard Box office, $12 at the door...
...main plot is simple: two lovers live on opposite sides of al-Ram checkpoint; the man tries to be with the woman when he's not at his dying father's bedside. Since the man is played by Suleiman, 42, and his lover by his ex-lover, Palestinian journalist Manal Khader, and since Suleiman's father did die as he was writing the screenplay, this is clearly a kind of autobiographical satire. "Cinema is a form of striptease for me," says Suleiman. "I jot down very personal moments of everyday life when they tickle me. There is no message...
...government doesn’t have the right to dictate whether I have the right to smoke or whether [an owner] has the right to allow smoking in his bar,” says Ram Mosher, the bartender at Grendel’s Den. “I’ll have to take smoke breaks, and it’ll be a pain...
Over the last few years, the president has used the same basic political calculation to ram much of his conservative program down the throats of the American people. He starts with a radically conservative proposal—such as absurdly tough guidelines for military tribunals, lax labor protections in the new Department of Homeland Security and, his latest, abolishing dividend taxes. His far-right base sees him taking a principled stand...
...dispute. Following a court order, government archaeologists last week began probing the dusty parcel with a ground-penetrating-radar magnometer capable of detecting a buried foundation and other subsurface ruins. Hindus hope the machine will bolster their claim that an ancient temple marking the birthplace of the god Ram once stood there?superseding the Muslim claim that dates back to the 16th century, when Mughal invaders erected a mosque on the site...