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...determines the will of “the people.”I saw “Peace at Gettysburg” near the fields. She poised on one foot atop a monument. Clutched by her side was an olive branch. But in her upraised hand, she held a sword. When I hope for peace in Iraq, I wonder what I’m really asking for.Lois E. Beckett ’09, a Crimson news editor, is a social studies concentrator in Leverett House. She is interning for the Reading Eagle Newspaper, and in her free time, reading newspapers...
...Sikh student at the Harvard Summer School who carries a kirpan—a sword worn sheathed and under clothing by baptized Sikhs as an article of faith—had his kirpan taken away from him in mid-July by Harvard administrators, though pressure from a Sikh advocacy group caused Harvard to return the kirpan soon afterwards...
Consequently, the climactic image of two Port Authority officers emerging from their claustrophobic sepulcher doesn’t feel like the removal of a national sword in the stone—it doesn’t even feel like consolation for traumatized New Yorkers. When McLoughlin and Jimeno rise from the ashes, America does...
...Burton said shutting the sites down is a "double-edged sword." As a former U.S. counterterrorism official, he sees the value of keeping the sites up so intelligence services can collect "forensic" evidence. "It's important to see what they are saying," he says, noting that Hizballah has resource bases in Indonesia and the tri-border area (Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay) of South America. Given Hizballah's links to Iran, which offers its operatives diplomatic cover around the world, according to Burton, monitoring Hizballah's Internet presence is vital as part of the "cat and mouse" game with Western intelligence...
...force. Democracy cannot be exported from a land where human rights are abused and ignored. Democracy is not a coalition of willing armed forces but a coalition of people. The world's problems today can be solved only by inculcating the maxim that the pen is mightier than the sword rather than the one that says power flows from the barrel of a gun. Samuel Nwankwo Madrid...