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This week, Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers announced the proposed transformation of the University’s Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS) into the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, creating a more impressive name and promising a more beefy complement of faculty and resources. The move...
Abbas is making a smart calculation that Hamas is less unified on its hostility to peace than its longstanding rhetoric would indicate, and he may be using the threat of a referendum over a negotiating position to exacerbate those divisions. Most polls show a solid majority of Palestinians backing the...
Even before Abbas's challenge, Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and some other Hamas leaders have been steadily moving toward some form of recognition of Israel within its 1967 borders, in line with the Arab League offer of peace in exchange for a return to those borders. "If Israel withdraws to...
His movie, The Bridge, which premiered at this year's Tribeca Film Festival in New York City, captures a handful of jumpers as they launch themselves over the railing. His aim, Steel told the San Francisco Chronicle, was to challenge audiences to "talk and think about suicide in profoundly different...
There are some things for which I will take a stand: I will protest and sign petitions for the rights of dining hall workers, I will vocally oppose the war in Iraq, and I will take on my friends who argue for turning Iran into a giant parking lot. I...