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...Israeli flag was burned. As police barricades separated pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli students, I walked by with a first-year art history class on a museum trip. Having already survived one year at the cantankerous university, I told the shocked freshmen, ‘Welcome to Con U...
...Muqtada's supporters are alleged to have been involved in the murder of pro-U.S. returned exile Ayatollah Abdel Majid al-Khoei at Najaf last month, and then briefly laid siege to the home of Iraq's supreme Shiite authority, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, and demanded that Sistani leave Iraq. Some U.S. officials speculated that his fanatical supporters, who had worked underground, were a pro-Iran faction stirring up trouble. But it quickly emerged that Muqtada spelt trouble even for the leading Iran-backed Iraqi Shiite group, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq. Muqtada - whose supporters...
...structure to the day was the meal schedule: breakfast at 7:30 a.m., lunch at noon and dinner at the faintly ridiculous time of 5:30 p.m. The cook was an ebullient, roly-poly Czech named Victor, who had had a previous career as a lounge singer in the U. S. The cuisine was the only category in which the Ingrid Oldendorff failed to match the standard of the cruise ships I've sailed with: the meals were ample, well cooked and tasty enough but monotonous, with an emphasis on meat and potatoes and garnished alternately by pickles and pineapple...
Eleanor R. Duckworth is professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (GSE). David U. Fox is a proctor and Wigglesworth Hall and teaching fellow for Duckworth’s GSE course “Learning and Teaching...
...Asked about the impact of the war on Saudi-U.S. relations, Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal replied: "As always with such questions, the answer is 'It depends...