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It’s a dreary day, and Slavitt is en route to Somerville to collect signatures. Poet, author, critic, and translator, Slavitt hopes to tack yet another title onto his resume: politician. After collecting his 150th signature last week, he is now the only Republican challenger to Democratic State Representative Timothy J. Toomey, who represents parts of Cambridge and Somerville...
...last week become a tense standoff in Shi'ite-and Sunni-dominated regions. U.S. officials held talks with Iraqi intermediaries aimed at suspending coalition military assaults, which many pro-American Iraqis believed was doing more harm than good in winning hearts and minds across the country. The diplomatic tack looked more likely to bear fruit in the Shi'ite-dominated south, where fighters loyal to the young Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr seemed to be abiding by a cease-fire, even as U.S. troops staged outside the holy city of Najaf. In Fallujah, by contrast, rebels killed nine...
...still work to be done. Harvard needs to be a place where students, queer and straight, are able to foster a discourse where these issues matter. On and off campus, a constant awareness and consciousness is crucial. While it’s a show of support to tack on a rainbow pin, try asking your queer friends what they think of Harvard’s campus climate. Instead of simply advocating same-sex marriage, take a quick poll to see if your friends even want to get married. If some guy in section mentions the date he had, don?...
With runners on second and third and just one out, Hillel threatened to tack on several more. Ryan Pakter tattooed an offering from Crimson hurler Dave Rochelson over the heads of both right fielders, prompting Jonathan Meltzer to take off at third base...
...goats and calves but his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption." The Gospel of Mark favors Roman legal language for the freeing of slaves: "the Son of Man came ... to give his life as a ransom for many." The First Epistle of Peter, meanwhile, takes a radically different tack, posing Jesus' trials as occasion for imitation: "because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps." And Paul's letter to the Colossians pauses only briefly at the Cross on its way to the triumphal image of the risen Christ parading demonic...