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...corporate America remains in shock after last week’s terrorist attacks, Harvard Square businesses are actively pursuing various relief and fund raising measures to aid victims...
...shock and anger following the terrorist attack has also resulted in calls to lift the longstanding American policy against state-sponsored covert assassinations. A ban on covert assassinations of foreign leaders was first imposed by President Gerald Ford in 1976, and an executive order signed by President Ronald Reagan in 1981 prohibits direct or indirect involvement in assassinations...
...born in the second half of the 20th century, for the experience." Robinson--amid the usual encomiums to civil society and the usual criticism of the media for concentrating on divisive issues--said she was "disturbed and distressed by the vitriolic words and inappropriate content" on display. The real shock of Durban is not that the U.S. and Israel chose to leave; it is that the delegations of other democracies stayed...
...finished reading your story on servicemen in Okinawa and the rape case involving a male African-American Air Force staff sergeant and a young Japanese woman [WORLD, Aug. 27]. Thank you for a balanced article. I am a former Marine, and was stationed on Okinawa in 1996-97. The shock and shame from the 1995 rape of a 12-year-old girl by three servicemen were still reverberating then. All the same, I am sick and tired of articles that portray our military men as violent and the Okinawan women as innocent schoolgirls. Ninety-nine percent of the servicemen...
Keller impresses without trying too damn hard, like some other chefs. He doesn't try to shock with weird juxtapositions, as in Tabasco ice cream. You never think, "Great sauce," at the French Laundry. You think, "Man, that sauce tastes more like ginger-carrot than eating a pound of ginger and carrots." The epiphanies come from finally figuring out exactly what certain foods are supposed to taste like. He refuses to fool you into thinking what's in front of you is more than just food. "I remember my first experience at a three-star restaurant in France...