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...opening remarks—and saw frontrunners Andrea R. Flores ’10 and Benjamin P. Schwartz ’10 trade barbs about topics like Schwartz’s final club membership and the extent to which the UC should work with the Harvard administration. The third serious candidate in the race is Charles T. James...

Author: By Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Apathy Marks UC Town Hall Meeting | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

...Frost, Sheen does an admirable, if overshadowed, job. At the film’s start, he plays the television personality to perfection, sporting an ever-present million-dollar smile. By its end, Sheen reveals a Frost transformed from entertainer to thinker, a man who has come to take himself seriously after confronting serious issues.Sheen and Langella are supported in the film by Matthew Macfadyen as Frost’s straight-man producer John Birt, and by the comedic tag team of Oliver Platt and Sam Rockwell, who play Frost’s academic “crack investigators?...

Author: By Yair Rosenberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Frost/Nixon | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

...Indeed, Uyghurs—like most in China—face serious consequences for critiquing the Chinese government...

Author: By Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Shelters Eastern Scholar | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

...context of the healthcare system,” Lopez said. “A peer counseling system helps lower these barriers.” Throughout the presentation, the counselors stressed the importance of open communication with a partner. “Sometimes it can be intimidating to talk about serious things with your partner,” Lescroart said. The handful of students who attended said they found the presentation very informative. “I feel like we need more help in knowing how to handle intimate encounters,” one female senior, who asked...

Author: By Adeline S. Rolnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Sextalk’ Offers Frank Advice | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

...current Western presence is the most benign intrusion in Afghan history, and the rationale of building stability remains a logical one - but this war has become something of a sideshow in South Asia. The far more serious problem is Pakistan, a flimsy state with illogical borders, nuclear weapons and a mortal religious enmity toward India, its neighbor to the south. Pakistan is where bin Laden now lives, if he lives. The Bush Administration chose to coddle Pakistan's military leadership, which promised to help in the fight against al-Qaeda - but it hasn't helped much, although there are signs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Aimless War: Why Are We in Afghanistan? | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

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