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Nearly every day, an ambulance comes to pick up one of the 12 Iranian hunger strikers camping out in front of the U.S. embassy in London. After a month and a half without food, some have suffered fainting spells, others vision loss or heart attacks. But the ambulance soon brings them back, because they refuse to be given IV drips. The strikers are relatives of Iranian dissidents living in a camp in central Iraq that was taken over by Iraqi police once U.S. troops had handed over control of the area. Their message to the U.S. is clear: protect their...
...Slow Food movement has helped raise consciousness about where food comes from, down to the farmer," says Tasch. "We're doing the same thing with money - where does it come from, and, when you spend or invest, where does it go?" In Tasch's vision that covers everything from seed companies to farms to markets and restaurants...
...hindsight is its overture—the first and perhaps the only significant one—to “2666.” That overture is its brush with the stuff of the latter’s dark invisible center: namely, terror. Bolaño’s vision of a small Spanish tourist town still firmly in the grip of Francisco Franco’s guardia civil is political in its subtlety; “The Skating Rink” never pushes up against the brutal reality of fascism except in the most banal ways, and only when...
...11Associate editorial editor When confused PAFs and freshman advisors query University Hall, administrators will realize that they forgot to include a History category in the General Education requirements. They will respond by forming a committee. After 21 years of deliberation, the College will debut its new vision for liberal arts education entitled… “The Core.”--Molly M. Strauss ’11Associate editorial editor
ArmorGroup's employees did not even appear to be fully aware of the ground rules of their contract. In one incident, according to POGO, guards set out from the embassy at night, armed and dressed in turbans, equipped with the embassy's night-vision equipment, to secure portions of the road between the embassy and the guard base in Camp Sullivan several miles off. But this action violated ArmorGroup's contract, which is only for static security - that is, guards at specified posts. (The role of traveling bodyguards for embassy personnel is contracted out to another firm, Xe, the company...