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...surface, there is a new spirit of national unity. All the political coalitions contesting Sunday's election have at least some semblance of sectarian diversity. Even the most homogeneous of the big blocs pretend to be more diverse than they really are. For example, the Shi'ite Islamist bloc, the Iraqi National Alliance, which critics suspect would like to spin off oil-rich Shi'ite southern Iraq into an autonomous region, includes one Sunni party from Anbar province. When asked, many average Iraqis say sectarian violence was something forced on them by outsiders, a bad dream from which they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sectarian Tensions Remain as Iraq Prepares to Vote | 3/5/2010 | See Source »

...SPIRIT OF A FAMILY

Author: By Michelle B. Timmerman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Targeting the Cure: A Feature Film | 3/4/2010 | See Source »

Crowley says that the film “captures 100 percent of the spirit and dynamic of our family” and describes the experience of being on set and seeing details from their own lives—the clothes they wore, the van they had—come alive on screen as “very surreal...

Author: By Michelle B. Timmerman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Targeting the Cure: A Feature Film | 3/4/2010 | See Source »

Tickets were a whopping $175 per plate to the event, but in the spirit of the New Deal, some were made available for free to undergraduates on a first-come, first-serve basis. And true to Harvard College form, the event mixed high class with even higher class by inviting the Roosevelt Institute, a student group dedicated to progressive government policy, to help bring some undergraduate flair to the event...

Author: By Diane E. Brinkley, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Getting Down With Roosevelt | 3/4/2010 | See Source »

...contests which fuel our unhealthy obsession with competition and bond us with our housemates by fooling us into believing that a recycling drive and an online game of Risk are proof of our superiority to people who live in that place called Dunster. What Harvard students lack in school spirit, we make up for in House spirit. Given that we have practically none of the former, we’re less than eager to let go of the latter, even though physically living in a House isn’t a prerequisite for being really proud that you were randomly...

Author: By Lena Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Renouncing the River Gods | 3/3/2010 | See Source »

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