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...most prominent university told me that three Harvard students had visited the West Bank last summer on behalf of Harvard’s admissions office.The hope and angst juxtaposed on the wall’s face (where “Mr. Bush tear down this wall” stood spray-painted only a few panels over from “Zionism = Nazism”) underlined the story I heard from the dean: local students, aspiring to education’s holy grail, were soon discouraged by the unfamiliar exams demanded by the application process—another high wall that...
...group of protesters stood outside the Kennedy School, carrying signs objecting the Israeli government and calling for “Victory for Hamas” and “End the Apartheid in Gaza,” but Livni also received some support from the packed Forum...
...fact, she finds it unconscionable—as if I am a traitor to all women. The crux of her argument rests upon my alleged inability to understand the plight of women as it stood a generation ago. According to her, I am morally obligated to vote for Hillary...
...private failings to disrupt the people's work," he said. "To every New Yorker, and to all those who believed in what I tried to stand for, I sincerely apologize...I look back on my time as governor with a sense of what might have been." His wife Silda stood heartbreakingly next to him. And, as it turns out, Spitzer's lawyer was also nearby, perhaps because of what had been and what might still be to come...
...press conference on Monday, and has made no public statements since. “I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my or any sense of right and wrong,” he said, as his wife, Silda Wall, stood by his side. Just a few months ago, Spitzer received press of a very different kind. The cover of the Winter 2007 issue of the Harvard-focused 02138 magazine shows a black-and-white photo of Spitzer and Wall, behind the headline “Power Couples.” Pictures taken...