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Talk about the heart of darkness: The Israeli army shelling the Palestinians in Gaza, the Lebanese army bombarding the Palestinians in a refugee camp outside of Tripoli. It may take a while for the smoke to clear, but one thing is for certain: neither Lebanon nor Israel fully understands its enemy and the nature of the relationship between the Palestinians and al-Qaeda, which is strengthening. The hope is that overwhelming military firepower will defeat unbendable faith, and, for our part, let's hope they have better success than we've had in Iraq...
...meetings have ended, the smoke is white, and Harvard College has a brand new curriculum. The infamous Core Curriculum, a relic of the last Bok administration, has finally been sent to its demise and in its place will stand a new general education system...
...firing machine guns and hurling grenades at Lebanese soldiers who sought cover behind armored personnel carriers on the street below. Soldiers battered the cramped apartment buildings with rifle and heavy machine gun fire, ripping chunks of masonry from the walls and filling the air with dust and acrid gun smoke. It was not until early evening that the army managed to kill the last of the militants...
...also assumes that film scenes showing adult characters smoking causes young people to smoke. Amidst all the cultural messages young people receive, film dramatizations can’t compare to the influence of friends, family, teachers, and doctors, among others. Besides, if we accept the fact that minors should not see films depicting unhealthy behavior, they will not see movies about anorexia, war, drug abuse, suicide, and many other topics – even though these films might help them understand the world better...
...thought God was in the flowers,” he recalls. “I had the ‘God is in everything’ view, that I inherited with the California poppies growing in our garden and the pot smoke wafting up from our neighbor’s yard...