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...laws preventing Harvard Square businesses from selling beer, wine, or liquor are impractical. “It’s silly,” said Christopher N. Sutton, a student at the Kennedy School of Government who signed the petition. “It sort of reflects the wider Mass. law,” But in 1986, the CLC passed a policy on the sale of alcoholic beverages, capping the number of locations in the Square that could receive licensing. Smile Thai Cafe is one of 90 restaurants in Harvard Square and one of the 70 members of Harvard Square...
Martin posits that student isolation from the wider community may be at the heart of the student-activism disconnect...
...this constantly since the debate erupted in Britain over whether Muslim women should wear full-face veils. Prime Minister Tony Blair has backed calls by his party's parliamentary leader, Jack Straw, that Muslim women in Britain should refrain from covering their full faces, particularly when dealing with the wider society. The indignation of British Muslims - their refusal, really, to even have a conversation about the issue - strikes me as particularly delusional, given the climate of post-9/11 Europe. It would be like me traipsing as an American into hostile, post-Taliban Afghanistan, imagining I could bare my hair...
...video was riotously funny, and a UBS employee soon leaked it to the wider world. But beyond the chortles, young Aleksey’s credentials and “drive to succeed” also struck a chord with the e-recruiting ethos. The video was featured on MSNBC, whose Donny Deutsch declared “I would hire this guy sight unseen.” Credit Suisse, and possibly other firms, gave Vayner an interview...
...interviews, three former prisoners jailed in the Damascus facility told Grey that they were regularly beaten by Syrian interrogators, and that they had been held in cells barely longer and wider than coffins. While in solitary confinement, they say they communicated with each other in snatched conversations through the walls, and sensed the presence of other prisoners also through their screams during torture sessions. One former prisoner told Grey that he had spoken through the walls with a jailed teenager, who told the man he had been transferred from Pakistan to Syria by U.S.agents. The adult prisoner recalled the teenager...