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Ambiance: This is where the Rock Café shines. With large windows, tasteful art, and a roomy interior with booths and sofa chairs, you may very well feel like you’ve walked into a classy cafe. Only the H1N1 table tents and the plethora of Purell dispensers give away that it’s a Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) operated venue...
...with them, for leaving a toddler with a 5-year-old. It doesn't matter. The driver is still hauled off to prison. He is held because we are Americans, and the U.S. has signed an accord with the Shah known by Americans as the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA), and by Iranians as the capitulation treaty. In 1964, when it was signed, the Ayatullah Khomeini railed against the legal inequities of the agreement, which gave American military immunity on Iranian soil: "If someone runs over a dog belonging to an American, he will be prosecuted," he thundered...
...childish belief that foreign-born solutions will work for the region. The West has spent decades hoping for and plotting a neat trajectory of Middle Eastern modernization. But whether vested in peace treaties or the Shah's imported pomp, those plans have never quite worked out. Not a SOFA agreement, not the Shah's speechifying about modernization, not a party in desert tents stocked with marble baths and champagne could sustain Jimmy Carter's mirage of an Iran that was "an island of security in a troubled region." Those brave, early hopes for Afghanistan and Egypt, too, quickly turned...
When ignored, history tends to repeat itself. Three decades after my father worked to build a codified Afghan legal system, a new generation of Americans are still trying to loosen the hold of pashtunwali, or tribal code, on Afghanistan's legal culture. The 2008 signing of a SOFA between Iraq and the U.S. had Iranian hard-liners once again warning against American imperialism. The treaty "does not allow the slightest grounds for the Iraq people's rule over their country and turns this country into a medieval colony for America," wrote Hossein Shariatmadari in the influential Iranian newspaper Kayhan. While...
...plumber was in a one-bedroom apartment in California's San Fernando Valley, with a pool and a Jacuzzi. Then, on his birthday in October, he and 199 other plumbers were laid off by their union, Local 761 in Burbank. Now Barker's son sleeps on the sofa of his cousin's one-bedroom Hollywood apartment, and Barker sleeps on the roof of the apartment building - or in his 2003 Ford Ranger pickup. "I'm 47, and I've never lived in my car," says Barker, a husky 220-lb. single father with sandy hair and a rapid-fire voice...