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...isolated break-ins, muggings, and assaults that happen in Harvard Square’s mean streets are trivialized as a series of isolated incidents, random occurrences that most of us have no reason to fear. One student, robbed in broad daylight in the middle of Harvard Yard this past January, even told The Crimson that the ordeal was a “freak incident,” and that he still felt safe walking around Harvard Square...
...many ways, Katy Helvenston is like any mother who has lost a son in Iraq. She talks to others who have survived their kids. She wonders whether she could have done more to keep him out of harm's way. She breaks down in tears at random intervals...
...said she was impressed by all of the students. “They were just so intrigued by the campus,” she said. “Some of them had never left Texas before. They were just so far away and everything I told them, from the random stories about the ‘Statue of Three Lies’, to Widener and how he died in the Titanic, was just marvelous to them.” Nielsen explained that about 40 percent of Roma High School graduates enter college, but far fewer graduate once there. She began...
...Iraqis still live in fear. The pervasive violence that has wracked Baghdad since the summer of 2003 has killed or injured tens of thousands, and has made random, unpredictable death a fact of Iraqi life. I've lost count of the number of times Iraqis have told me, with biting sarcasm, that it's a little hard to appreciate the benefits of the new education system when schools and schoolbuses are regularly being bombed. They point out, too, that democracy has brought to power leaders who are sectarian partisans or kleptocrats, often both. Other new freedoms are appreciated...
...most popular clip on YouTube gets more viewers than the biggest blockbuster films. But in the face of this onslaught, books have remained relatively untouched. To me, books are a remnant from the old order when people still luxuriated in bubble baths and drank dry martinis. So when both Random House and HarperCollins announced they had a new way of combining technology and literature, I was skeptical. Last week, Random House introduced Insight, a new browsing feature on their Web site that enables users to search and read excerpts from over 5,000 of its books. HarperCollins recently installed...