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Today marks the last day for Harvard student groups, including final clubs, to register the names of their officers with the College to comply with its revised hazing policy.The deadline comes under a new attempt to regulate events sponsored by student groups and athletic teams, which the administration hopes will...

Author: By Sophie M. Alexander, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Deadline Looms for Groups To Register | 10/31/2007 | See Source »

At the heart of the international flap are six French nationals working for child relief NGO Zoe's Ark, who were arrested last Thursday as they prepared to spirit 103 Darfur orphans away from the Chadian city of Abéché on a chartered plane. According to press comments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charges Made in Darfur 'Adoptions' | 10/29/2007 | See Source »

On the other hand, candidates with steadfast principles from which they are never willing to stray can be considered ideologues. Typified by Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas), this candidate places his or her abstract beliefs above any pragmatic concerns. In the case of Paul, he has such a profound distaste...

Author: By Jarret A. Zafran | Title: On Ideologues and Weathervanes | 10/28/2007 | See Source »

...tough to decide who is potentially more dangerous for the American public to elect: the person devoid of willingness to compromise or the person devoid of principles. Electing either an ideologue or a weathervane can be a very precarious proposition for voters. Maralee Schwartz, the former national political editor of the Washington Post and current fellow at the Institute of Politics, told me, “Voters are risk-averse this election.” She compares 2008 to 1992, except that while people back then were willing to take a risk on a young Arkansas governor named Bill...

Author: By Jarret A. Zafran | Title: On Ideologues and Weathervanes | 10/28/2007 | See Source »

"It looks like a slow-motion train wreck," said Barbara Slavin, author of a new book, Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the U.S. and the Twisted Path to Confrontation. "Neither side is willing to back down and the chances for conflict are growing over the nuclear program and Iran's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran War Drumbeat Grows Louder | 10/26/2007 | See Source »

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