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...faculty members on the committee. But Pfister has said the group is on a “little hiatus.” Sundquist said that the committee’s first scheduled meeting will be the week after spring break, when all its members are back in town. Pfister is out of the office until March 31 and could not be reached for comment. “We very much value your participation as a distinguished student—one who has been vetted in various ways by your peers, who has discussed this topic broadly with those peers...
...Imagine going back to the town I grew up in—Los Altos—and to see it completely destroyed: the people to be different, the food to be different. It’s really traumatizing," Shakir said. "I think they’d both go if the opportunity came and it was very safe, but it would not be an easy experience or a vacation by any means...
...going to succeed everywhere," McCain told reporters after meeting with Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni. "They are dedicated to the extinction of everything that the U.S., Israel and the West believe and stand for." He also met President Shimon Peres and was supposed to tour Sderot, a southern Israeli town often targeted by rockets from Gaza militants...
...eagerly drawn to Tibetan tradition and Buddhism are, in fact, citizens of China, who have been denied any religious sustenance for more than 50 years. The last time I visited Lhasa, in 2002, I saw more and more Chinese individuals going to the Jokhang Temple at the center of town as pilgrims, seeking out Tibetan lamas for instruction, even trying to learn Tibetan, the same language that is all but banned for Tibetans. When I traveled across Japan with the Dalai Lama last November, I saw dozens of Chinese people clustering around him, sobbing and asking for his blessing...
...office" in Beirut's southern suburbs to see if I could photograph the grave of its most recent "martyr," Imad Mughniyah - the Hizballah military commander assassinated in Damascus on February 12. It shouldn't have been a big deal: Mughniyah's pictures line the road from the airport into town. But the lady who ran the office looked at us as if we personally had detonated the car bomb that killed...