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...Since 2005, 81 percent of the world??s execution of juveniles took place in Iran. Ahmadinejad’s penchant for allowing the murder of Iranian juveniles, which is in direct violation of various UN treaties, does not merely extend to youngsters. Iran takes silver to China’s gold in the contest for overall leading global executioner, and Ahmadinejad has led his country to a 300 percent increase in executions since taking office in 2005. In his spare time, Ahmadinejad also imprisons academics, detains students, and jails journalists and human rights defenders...
...world is serious out there. Not only am I in the thick of classes and all else that school entails, but with the downward turn in the financial markets, even that “outside world?? seems pretty heavy right now. So when I walk into a bookstore, all I want is to get that warm and fuzzy feeling inside. Here’s to those covers that are just nice eye candy. Yummy! DEWEY: THE SMALL-TOWN LIBRARY CAT WHO TOUCHED THE WORLD by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter Beautiful, brown, doleful eyes look out from...
...sidelined so quickly that Graham has little time to develop her personality. The film’s style, which could have served to elevate its subject matter, only deadens it. Just as Kinnear portrays a very ordinary man, director Marc Abraham places him in a very dreary world??1950s Detroit. The color quality of the film is bleak and sometimes so washed-out as to seem almost black and white. The muted music of the soundtrack is often overshadowed by background noises, such as people murmuring in a restaurant or traffic on a puddle-filled street. The only...
Raúl A. Carrillo ‘10 is a social studies concentrator in Lowell House. His column “Brave New World?? will explore globalization, world affairs, and the future of human society on alternate Fridays...
...life can’t stop after sundown. The Staff points out that Harvard is an urban college. Urban or not, we are still college students and not Manhattanites, and this is an educational community, not a metropolis. Our campus is not “the real world??—and the same paternalism that prohibits us from using our fireplaces or appliances in our dorms out of an attention to safety should be directed at ensuring our protection as we stroll from Mass. Ave. to our dorms along the Charles. Lucy M. Caldwell...