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...Speaking to a Jerusalem audience of American and Israeli intellectuals and policy-makers organized by the Brookings Institution Sunday night, Rice appealed for support resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by focusing on the human toll on both sides. ? Terrorists have claimed the lives of over one thousand innocent Israelis and injured thousands of others-men and women and children who simply wanted to enjoy a pizza or catch a bus or celebrate Passover,? she said. ?And the Palestinian people have suffered, too. They too have mourned the loss of innocent life. They too have been deprived of days that...
...fellow despots. Hitler's body was likely incinerated outside his bunker; Mussolini's corpse swung from a gas-station awning in Milan; but Franco still lies in a grand tomb funded and carefully maintained by the country he subjugated. On Sunday, the 30th anniversary of his death, several thousand Franco supporters will make their annual journey to the Valley of the Fallen, some 50 km northwest of Madrid, where a colossal basilica is carved into the craggy Guadarrama Mountains. There, they will lay wreaths and offer fascist salutes, as they do every year. But this time, their pilgrimage will take...
...lesser forms of torture were legal, these CIA officers will not be facing charges. McCain’s ban would close such loopholes, returning the U.S. to the ethical position it had taken for five decades. According to human rights groups, the bill would give protection to some ten thousand foreign suspects.Supporters of torture often point to the “ticking bomb” scenario—in which torturing one suspect could potentially save thousands of lives—as a justifiable reason to consider torture as a last resort. But to think primarily in terms of such...
...there was a recipe to the Busch-Reisinger Museum’s newest exhibit, it’d probably go something like this: Take an onion. Flatten it. Enlarge it a thousand times. Add every color and texture. Bake at 350º. Let cool for five to 40 years, then try to find the original layers of the onion again...
...spend students’ termbill fees on a system that cannot produce popular results.The overwhelming sentiment among UC members, almost a dozen of whom explicitly endorse the ideas presented here, is that the failure of the fall concert was not a circumstantial failure but an institutional one. Thirty-thousand dollars could have benefited students in any number of ways, and it is our responsibility to ensure that correct mechanisms are in place to prevent the squandering of such funds in the future.Lori M. Adelman ’08 is a social studies concentrator in Dunster House. Ryan M. Donovan...