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When Cory A. Booker took office as mayor of Newark, N.J. in 2006, he assumed responsibility for a city torn by crime, economic instability, and explosive racial tensions. Booker, an Yale-educated lawyer, ran on platform of reforming the city’s government and reducing crime. Since taking office, his mayoral agenda—which some consider too idealistic for the harsh reality of Newark, which was decimated following notorious race riots in 1967 riots—has been closely monitored by his constituents and the national media alike. This heavy dose of idealism is what the future lawyers...
...Mohammed Maree (pronouned mar-EYE) is a student of veterinary medicine. He’s a kind man with a quiet, gentle voice who held my hand as we ran through the streets under police siege. When we got hit with tear gas, Mohammed negotiated safe houses for us to go in and wash our eyes. He always worried about my camera. When a passing train a few feet away was hit with rocks and I cowered in fear, he covered my body with...
...victim of circumstance. His city of Mahalla is an industrial town, a poor, blue-collar city home to large factories that pay small salaries. Still, factory workers make more than most. Open rebellion carries a high cost in Egypt, and Mohammed saw it happen to his neighbors. Nevertheless, he ran towards the conflict, not away...
...this week were beginning their senior year of college—the Faculty Committee on Regional Studies at Harvard established the Center for East Asian Studies in order to give “cohesion and stimulus” to graduate training and research associated with East Asia. The Crimson ran a short article covering the Center’s formation, noting that its plans called for “more intensive study of Japan, Korea, and other potential trouble areas...
...Heidegger and recognizing the pretentiousness; long coffees in the Barker Center with girlfriends discussing our floundering thesis projects and fierce “Project Runway”; or countless nights at Charlie’s Kitchen, Grendel’s Den, or Cambridge 1 with my roommates where emotions ran as high about their classes as for the Celtics...