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...Gazans see Israel's unilateral withdrawal last month as evidence that Hamas's campaign of violence against the soldiers and settlers proved more effective than the Palestinian Authority's negotiations. Tens of thousands of Gazans have driven south since the Israelis left to see the places where the settlements stood. To do so is to visit a landscape entirely new and strange, with ploughed over mud where army posts stood and settlers' demolished homes punctuating the sand dunes with bright piles of concrete...
...Harvard women’s golf team placed third yesterday at the Yale Invitational at The Course at Yale in New Haven. The Crimson shared third place with Georgetown and Columbia. After the first round, which took place on Saturday, Harvard stood in seventh place in a field of 10 teams. Captain Jen Cronan was the team’s low scorer with a 79, but the rest of the team had more difficulty with the course, which is notoriously tough with long fairways and undulating greens. The Crimson fared better during the second round yesterday and the team played...
With total assets that stood at $25.9 billion at the end of last fiscal year, Harvard’s endowment remained leaps and bounds above its peers in higher education and more than $10 billion ahead of second-place Yale...
Sometimes you have to travelto a wine's home in order to understand its character. Last fall, after the harvest in Italy, I stood atop the ruined fortress that looms over the ancient town of Montalcino, the birthplace of Brunello, just 25 miles southeast of Siena. From the fortress, I devoured the panoramic view of the Tuscan countryside. In the distance, the grapevine leaves were as colorful as New England's best in October. Clumps of olive trees and upright cypresses were shadowed by the brooding Mount Amiata. The whole ambiance was distilled in the Brunello I was drinking...
...spent the whole show singing with eyes closed, and when he wasn’t huddled over his guitar with an E-Bow, he stood straight up and clenched his little hands like a child, squealing out meditative old standards like “Viðrar Vel Til Loftárása” and stunning new post-rockers like “Saeglópur.” He’s like the most earnest third-grader you’ve ever seen sing a Disney song at the talent show...