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...military has become increasingly complex, issues such as ROTC recruitment, department of defense research grants, and support of foreign policy should not deter students from actively honoring our current and fallen troops. The events of “Support Our Troops” Week are not focused upon the foreign policy of President Bush, the role of ROTC on campus or support for the war in Iraq. The week was instead designed by both campus Democrats and Republicans to express tribute to our countrymen—many of whom are our age—who sacrifice their lives to serve.Elise...
Sellathurai Mahalingam was standing on the bridge of the M.V. Semlow watching night settle upon the Indian Ocean when he first realized he and his crew were in trouble. The waters off East Africa were unseasonably flat and the Semlow, loaded with 850 tons of rice, food aid for victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami in Somalia, was cutting its way north at a steady 12 knots, some 55 km from the Somali coast. Then, out of the dark, came a burst of gunfire. "I saw the flash of five to 10 shots," says Mahalingam, 58, a short Sri Lankan...
...needy folk, and nominated a guardian of seafarers. After his bones were removed by Italian raiders to the port of Bari in 1087, prisoners, prostitutes, pawnbrokers and others flocked to his patronage. Soon, every Christian city wanted a piece of him, and relic hunters provided fingers, hair and teeth upon which to build churches. Reaching Amsterdam around 1300, he eventually became a supplier of goodies to kids, as shown in the 1907 postcard at left. And it was Dutch pilgrims who took him to America, where, in 19th century New York City, frothy writers and advertisers turned the austere bishop...
...magnetic effect on children of the suburbs like myself. Repelled by what I perceived as the insulation of my quiet home town—nestled amid the rolling hills of Tennessee—I leapt at the opportunity to attend college in Cambridge, a real center of civilization. Upon arrival, though, I quickly realized that the city that, to a large extent, had drawn me to Harvard was not the glorious hub of humanity that I had envisioned. Instead, I found it to be a place marred by the most disconcerting of sounds, sights, and activities. I found that Harvard?...
...Harvard community up to $100. But in the letter, Summers made no such pledge for future relief efforts. Instead, he wrote that the University’s “primary and most important response” would be to encourage students, faculty, and staff to draw upon their “unique capacities” to provide aid, and that Harvard would seek to better coordinate these efforts.In addition to marshalling the skills of Harvard community members, Summers wrote that the University would “consider making various kinds of support available” to Harvard groups that...