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...Nahr al-Bared was once the most pleasant Palestinian camp in Lebanon, located near the northern city of Tripoli where a cold mountain stream meets the sea, and surrounded by orange orchards and banana plantations. Now it is a miniature Stalingrad on the Mediterranean. An uprising in the summer of 2007 by an insurgent jihadist group, Fatah al-Islam, reduced Nahr al-Bared to rubble and made its 31,000 residents homeless. Though most Fatah al-Islam members were not Palestinians but foreign Arabs from places such as Iraq and Saudi Arabia, the lawlessness of the camps - which lie outside...
...soldiers who died in the battle. "The war with Israel was much easier than this," says Mohammed Ali Hamid, a 76-year-old veteran from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, whose home in Nahr al-Bared was hit by some 20 rockets and artillery shells last summer. Other wild-eyed residents claim that the bombardment of the camp was part of a secret plan to clear the space for an American base. The children at one kindergarten act out the searing memories of being forced from their refugee camp during the fighting by shouting at each other...
...Moreover, with the once-rosy prospects of the financial industry now a distant memory, undergraduates here at the College—and at similar institutions—must realize that the days of simply expecting a firm to offer lucrative summer internships to nearly every qualified applicant are over. Unfortunately, most summer internships do not cover rent and plane tickets or offer a lavish monthly bonus—the way things are going now, you may not be paid at all. Those Harvard students who simply assumed that an entry-level analyst position would somehow magically materialize for them will...
...Eugene Kim ’10, a Crimson associate editorial editor, is a history concentrator in Kirkland House. He does not yet have a summer job and wishes everyone the best of luck in these tough times...
...help him to overcome any adversity he might face.“He is a very driven kid,” Stamatis says. “The surgery he had April was supposed to keep him out for five to six months, but he was back playing in the summer after only three.”“It’s going to come down to if I am fit,” Fucito says. “If I’m healthy I think I do belong here. They drafted me for a reason...