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...fundraising plan. HDAG, in conjunction with students at many of Harvards graduate schools, began online circulation of a petition last week that would enable students to donate leftover BoardPlus and Crimson Cash to support peacekeepers in Sudan. It is called Swipe for Darfur, and its gathered a few thousand signatures already. Swipe for Darfur is a valid and genuinely well-meaning plan, but alas one that has not been fully developed, nor adequately explained to the Harvard community...
Provocative pundit Ann Coulter regularly enrages the left and delights the right, so it was no surprise that our several thousand letters broke along similar lines. Some readers wondered why Coulter deserved the attention, while others saluted their favorite Republican pinup girl...
...first year studying photography. He describes the “terribly rude awakening” of laying out all his semester’s photographs in front of his professor, only to have the professor trash every last one of them. Johnson went back to work, taking a thousand photographs over the last three weeks of the semester and ending up with ten he considered usable...
...unable to help, the Government of Sierra Leone hired Executive Outcomes, a South African mercenary army, to establish peace in return for $15 million and access to some diamond mines. With 200 soldiers and a helicopter gunship, Executive Outcomes managed to quell the rebels and restore order. Three hundred thousand refugees returned home, and within a year, Sierra Leone had its first presidential election in 28 years. The soldiers of Executive Outcomes are regarded with immense respect by Sierra-Leonians, many of who owe their lives to the soldiers...
...veritable Palm Springs on the Euphrates. While good data is hard to find, most human rights experts agree that at least a million Iraqis were killed because of Saddam’s policies: half a million slaughtered because of Saddam’s aggression against Iran; a hundred thousand massacred because of Saddam’s invasion into Kuwait; and, at home, countless hundreds of thousands raped, tortured, and murdered...