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...along the pavements, keeping low, chased by the sound of gunfire and more explosions. The nearest escape route is 33rd Street, narrow like so many in the downtown area, and it is a seething bottleneck of people - sitting ducks - so I run on and dart up 34th Street. Are they firing over our heads? Not all the time. Not far from where I had been standing lies the body of Japanese cameraman Kenji Nagai, shot dead by a soldier at point-blank range...
...still hear gunfire at 5 p.m. - continuous, loud, high caliber, some of it very close, most of it caroming through the streets from the east. I phone a Burmese friend who lives in the area. He is holed up in his house with his wife and three children. "What's happening?" I ask. He replies: "They are hunting...
...Great Arctic Grab As a university student of ecology and evolutionary biology, I would prefer that the Arctic remain largely untouched and unspoiled [Oct. 1]. But since profit-driven exploitation of this increasingly accessible area is inevitable, substantial fees should be imposed on corporations and nations that profit from what ought to be considered world heritage. Moneys collected could aid biodiversity conservation and ameliorate poverty. But it's more likely that we will see the traditional unholy alliance of nationalism, greed and business as usual. Fred Drumlevitch, Tucson, Ariz...
Although it could not seem more unlikely today, Harvard and MIT were once very nearly a single school. Claiming that it was unreasonable for two highly similar institutions, MIT and Harvard’s Lawrence Scientific School, to exist in such a small area, then-University President Charles W. Eliot and MIT President Henry S. Pritchett undertook a highly controversial campaign from 1904 to 1905 to integrate...
Since his election to the Elysée on a platform of deep and sweeping reform, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has repeatedly pledged a "rupture" with the past habits, attitudes and endless calculating that have frozen so many of his country's previous governments into virtual immobility. One area he's done just that is in assembling his government under the ideologically blind policy of "ouverture" - the "opening" of cabinet posts to erstwhile leftists opponents whose talents Sarkozy believes will serve the nation well. But while initially applauded by many pundits for ignoring traditional hostilities that have previously made bipartisan...