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...ever said was that he was creating a "pure" communist society and whatever he did was done for his country. "My conscience is clear," he told journalist Nate Thayer in a rare interview last October, never admitting his appalling conduct, never regretting the countless executions, the million more dead of starvation and overwork, the living population maimed in body or mind, the entire country reduced to Stone Age survival. Nineteen years after the hated Vietnamese drove him back into the jungle, the evil that he did lives on in Cambodia's traumatized society, poisoned politics, governmental misrule and pitiful piles...
...houses in paranoid addiction to secrecy. He trusted very few comrades for long: he had 16,000 Khmer Rouge cadres tortured to death in the infamous Tuol Sleng interrogation center--"strings of traitors," as he saw them, who had to be "burned out." Yet when confronted with this by Thayer, Pol Pot claimed he had never heard of Tuol Sleng and showed no sign of remorse. "I came to carry out the struggle, not to kill people. Even now, and you can look at me, am I a savage person...
Recently, the ground between Thayer Gate and the Science Center has begun to resemble a war zone, with zealous extracurricular groups taping countless posters to the ground in various patterns. When I have passed through this area in recent weeks, I can't help but think of how visitors to our beautiful campus must feel about Harvard students' reckless disregard for the beauty of our surroundings...
...also quick to point out that their lighthearted diversions are really nothing compared to what goes on elsewhere in the Yard. Things are easier so see, because windows are at pedestrian level, and the dorms are very close together. Terence mentions a neighbor who has a room facing Thayer and who swears that "there's this one couple who completely show off." He agrees, too, that there are some things that you just don't watch. "We were talking about this [particular room across the way], and we looked out the window, and in a room right next to that...
...Gaypril" is upon us. To kick off this month-long celebration of queer rights and queer pride, the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) set up a table in front of Widener Library and plastered the campus with provocative posters. One poster, hanging behind Thayer Hall, reads "More sex, Join the BGLTSA." Another says simply "Vulva...