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Authors and journalists face a strange dilemma today: on the one hand, the disastrous policies of the Bush administration and the proximity of the upcoming 2006 midterm elections are rich material for any writer. On the other hand, this temptation has saturated the shelves of Barnes and Nobles with books on Iraq and the Bush administration. Another book on the subject risks getting lost in the shuffle...
...Fortunately, Frank H. Rich ’71, a former Crimson editor and current New York Times columnist, has penned a colorful, readable, and insightful new book...
...told properly that my child will be taken for good. You know, I am not educated so the way I was told, I thought it would be the same as keeping him at the orphanage, the only difference being that he will be kept by a rich, respectable lady and in America, which is far away. I never understood it as my child being taken for good...
Highlighting the incredibly rich and varied culture of Southern India, the Harvard South Asian Association’s presentation of “Kalpanam 2006: Classical Imaginations,” combined dance, music, rhythm, and costume, in an evening that proved to be not only visually stunning, but also of educational value. Presented in Lowell Lecture Hall last Saturday night to a nearly full house, “Kalpanam” consisted of two main acts separated by an intermission. Directed by Prerna Martin ’09 and Rohini S. Rau-Murthy ’08, and produced...
Chechnya is a federal territory subject to the Russian Federation. Rich in natural resources, the area is a historical hotspot that once featured power struggles between Cossacks, Ottoman Turks, and bizarrely, Buddhist Kalmyks. Chechens eventually converted to Islam and ever since have vehemently resisted Russian control. Invariably uprising once a generation, they even collaborated with Nazi invaders in the ’40s. Comrade Stalin was so enraged about this betrayal that he called for genocidal mass deportations—and actually scattered millions of Chechens around the Soviet Union—yet the Chechen nation survived the dictator...