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...Israeli citizenship as a “blood kinship,” but as Dershowitz and Cohen, among others, pointed out, there are 1.3 million Arab-Israeli citizens.Dershowitz also claims that the authors mischaracterize the Israeli and American peace proposal made to the Palestinians at the 2000 Camp David summit as overly meager.In April, he published his own working paper through the Kennedy School in response to the “Israel Lobby” article, critical of both its evidence and what he called its “music, tone, and pitch.”Later this year, Walt...
While Harvard students were busy cramming for their last finals, Cabot House tutor Myles G. Osborne approached Second Step, a rock face three hours away from the summit of the highest mountain on earth. But he never made it to the top—instead, he saved a man’s life. It was 7 a.m. on the morning of May 26, and Osborne and his team had been climbing for over seven hours since the night before. They were in their tenth week on Mount Everest, and it was their third attempt at reaching the summit. With...
European envoys hope to elicit the regime's answer before July's G-8 summit in St. Petersburg, Russia. The Vienna group agreed that if Iran fails to accede to the world's demands, the matter will return to the Security Council, which would enact unspecified punitive measures...
...expedition there was no way that you would have left a man under a rock to die." SIR EDMUND HILLARY, the first man to climb Mount Everest in 1953, on the death of British mountaineer David Sharp, who froze just below Everest's summit last week as several other climbers passed by without trying to save...
AGAINST ALL ODDS New Zealander Mark Inglis, whose legs were severed below the knees because of frostbite on another expedition, became the first double amputee ever to summit. On the way up, Inglis had to repair a prosthetic limb--it snapped when he fell at about...