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...Harvard, during which he blamed God for sending him to Harvard instead of Stanford. “I was like, ‘God, why can’t I have, like, just two more years in the sun?’” Lin said. Guest speaker Jimmy Quach ’98 led off his speech by explaining just how the Neo song “So Sick of Love Songs” applies to Christianity. “It’s an anthem for that loneliness we all feel,” he said...
...chaired the event’s Programming and Promotions Committee. One Currier blocking group did particularly well in the raffle, with four members winning prizes including a video iPod and some of the gift certificates, according to Christopher N. Acton-Maher ’07, who won an iHome speaker and is also a Crimson editor. “Our block-mate [Joseph K. Lee ’07] is in charge of the whole thing. He’d been encouraging us to buy tickets, and we ended up with about 100 between us,” said Acton...
...last time the U.S. military waged an air war against a WMD threat, it was in the form of a four-day bombing campaign against Iraq in December 1998. Dubbed "Desert Fox" by the Pentagon, it got relatively little press because President Clinton?s impeachment and doomed House Speaker-to-be Bob Livingston?s extramarital-affair scandal were exploding at the same time. As the attack unfurled, Pentagon officials privately conceded their barrage was based on crude estimates of where Saddam Hussein might be hiding elements of his banned WMD programs...
...Class of 2006 will soon be treated to its very own “Hour with Jim Lehrer.” The noted news anchor and novelist will be the principal speaker for Harvard’s 355th Commencement Afternoon Exercises on June 8. The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA), responsible for choosing each year’s afternoon speaker, selected Lehrer for his “objectivity and intelligence” and the respect he inspires, according to the announcement in the Harvard Gazette yesterday. In his over 40 years as a journalist, Lehrer has won numerous awards, including...
...Islamic party are incensed by a key facet of Olmert's disengagement plan: If Hamas refuses to accept Israel's right to exist, the Israelis will draw up permanent borders without the Palestinians' consent. "Why should we recognize Israel," Aziz Dweik, a Hamas member and the new speaker of the Palestinian parliament, told TIME, "when Israel won't recognize our existence?" Israel, for its part, will not talk to Hamas until the militants abandon their vow to destroy the Jewish state, renounce terrorism and give up their weapons. Relations between Israel and the Palestinians...