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...surround the Gaza City home of Sheik Ahmed Yassin, founder and spiritual leader of the movement whose name means zeal, calls rang from the loudspeakers of local mosques, "Go and rescue Sheik Yassin!" The security men were greeted with a hail of stones and occasional gunfire from several thousand defiant Hamas loyalists determined to show Arafat, just like Israel, how much they have become a force to be reckoned with...
...real fighters, the thousand or more troops from the Laskar Jihad, are nowhere in sight, leaving refugees like Rawana Tangalu homeless and bewildered. The 60-year-old farmer fled into the jungle with her daughter and son-in-law and their three-year-old boy and two-month-old girl when the attack came at 10 a.m. on Nov. 28. "I could hear the bombs and nonstop shooting from the village for two days and two nights," Tangalu says. "My daughter had to cover my grandchild's mouth to stop her from crying." The local military commander sent dozens...
...working conditions that reflect their dignity as human beings. The huge outpouring of support for janitors on Nov. 30 demonstrated that the Harvard community is as mobilized as ever around the demand for a living wage for all Harvard employees. Thanks to the work of the more than a thousand people who attended this rally and previous ones like it, the crisis of poverty on Harvard’s campus is finally beginning to get the attention it deserves. Now, the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP) and University President Lawrence H. Summers must provide the right solution...
...sucka, fools gold that is!--I will leave the fairy-tale land of undergraduate life with a screaming three-headed bundle on my back and a dazed, weakened man dragging behind me, still confused about why he blacked out after the Band began its rendition of Ten Thousand...
More than a thousand Americans have been named Marshall Scholars since the scholarship’s founding...