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...walked out of the Loeb Ex on Friday feeling as though I had just been through a war??a war that, like all wars, was chaotic and emotionally draining. It took me the entire walk back to the Quad before my muscles could relax...
Albright said that the war??s disastrous outcomes were ultimately the results of Bush’s failure to familiarize himself with the political culture of the region...
...fighters on both sides, Beah says, were “dangerous, and brainwashed to kill.” This isn’t an attempt to beat the reader over the head with a political message, but rather a moving description of an army life reminiscent of the Vietnam War??filled with drug use and instructions to ignore the safety on a gun. One soldier even imitates Rambo, covering his face with mud and asking to take a rebel village by himself. For Beah, who describes the world through a fish-eye lens, the devil is in such...
...Church last night, the wind choking a flame every now and then, as students remembered the soldiers and civilians who had been killed in the war in Iraq. The vigil was one in a series of campus events staged by student groups to mark the fourth anniversary of the war??s beginning. At the vigil, students read statements written by friends of slain American soldiers, followed by a short silence from the audience, which numbered more than 50. Earlier, members of the Harvard College Democrats and other students spent six hours reading a list of the dead...
...weigh in on battlefield decisions. Legal luminaries Professor of Law David J. Barron ’89, a former Crimson president, and soon-to-be Harvard Law professor Noah R. Feldman ’92 took generally opposing views at “How Can Congress Stop the War??And Should it be Able to?”—with Barron siding with Congress and Feldman leaning towards the Commander-in-Chief. The discussion centered on the ostensible conflict between Article I of the Constitution, which gives Congress the power to “regulate...