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...American soil. Around 40 percent say they?re ?somewhat concerned,? while the rest are concerned either ?not much? or ?not at all.? And when it comes to personal investment in the issue, the numbers sink even lower, with less than 10 percent seriously concerned that they personally will fall victim to an attack, versus around a third of those with not a lick of concern...
...other end of the scale, Charles J. Swanson ’08, who is “equal parts” white and African American, said he did not want to be the victim of positive discrimination...
Editor's Note: Since the publication of this story in September 2006, new information has arisen regarding the case in question. The allegations were proven false, the arrest was expunged, and subsequent police investigations and inquiries by Harvard's Administrative Board concluded that the claims made by the alleged victim in the subsequent story had no basis. At the time of these developments, The Crimson was not notified of the exoneration and therefore did not report on those developments. As such, we provide this note as a way of fully documenting the situation to its eventual conclusion...
...short, she's a complex handful?resisting her fate as a victim while lacking the smooth social skills and emotional coolness of her upper-crust tormentors. Johansson brings to the role a ferocity touched by terror that is new to her work. And impressive. It surely draws on Allen's rich writing but not necessarily his directing. He's famously hands-off in that department, which is just fine with Johansson. "I guess he hires actors he thinks will be capable of rounding out the characters he's written," she says. "I think actors appreciate that kind of respect." Allen...
...Saddam Hussein's Iraq in search of jobs. He was in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001. The disappearance of seeming paradises has been his lifelong companion. More than that, though, he is an amphibian of sorts who knows what it is to be both witness and victim. Though he has a doctorate from Oxford, lives in New York and teaches at Harvard, Ghosh was born in India, and grew up in Bangladesh, before moving to Egypt for two years in later life. Where another writer with his formal standing might simply lament the chaos that broke out across...