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...Each of those deaths carried an impact, but none were traceable back to the enemy. Has three months of largely bloodless battles left Americans at home ill-equipped to deal with the oddly foreign specter of hostile fire casualties? Will Friday's shooting change the way Americans view the war against terrorism...
...HATESHIP, FRIENDSHIP, COURTSHIP, LOVESHIP, MARRIAGE The nine tales assembled under this long title again demonstrate Canadian author Alice Munro's thorough mastery of the short story. All of them are touched, in one way or another, by the specter of death, a topic that Munro's skill makes surprisingly lively...
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage The nine tales assembled under this long title again demonstrate Canadian author Alice Munro's thorough mastery of the short story. All of them are touched, in one way or another, by the specter of death, a topic that Munro's skill makes surprisingly lively...
...Negri tend to ramble from subject to subject, but they have some rare insights. In particular, they make a persuasive case that the truly transformative change in our world is not found in technology or global economics but in unprecedented mobility, the power to get up and go. "A specter haunts the world," they write, and "it is the specter of migration." As policymakers struggle to come to terms with a world in which multiple diasporas create multiple identities and loyalties, that claim may be the place to start charting our common future...
Unsurprisingly, the Harvard chapter of Alpha Epsilon Pi is quick to play down the ugly specter of ethnic antagonism in their own chapter. Eliot J. Rushovich ’03, president of the Harvard chapter, says that he was “personally shocked” to hear of the troubles in the Miami chapter and states that he “didn’t even hear about it until the article was printed...