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...more tumultuous visit to Columbia University last fall, the Kennedy School of Government invited his predecessor, Mohammad Khatami, to speak in 2006. Protests swirled around the event, with invocations directed at the ex-president to condemn his replacement’s recklessness. None of the invective, however, dealt with the man’s actual political position as a pacifist and a pro-Western reformer. In 1997, Khatami won election three-to-one on the strength of young people passionate about the prospect of change (sound familiar?). Yes, theocratic authority overcame its democratic counterpart and stunted Khatami?...
...warning that “this is a very serious matter and cannot continue.” Needles have been found as recently as this week, according to Rosen’s e-mail. “It’s not something we’ve ever dealt with before,” said HUDS spokeswoman Crista Martin. Robert P. Mitchell, spokesman for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, said that HUDS, Winthrop House, and the Harvard University Department of Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) are working together to reach a solution. Last night, EH&S placed...
...Sympathetic press reports have also noted that Bouton's actions in the face of the crisis provided additional reason for keeping him on. Despite the enormous blow Kerviel's activities dealt the bank's finances and image, Bouton was able to quickly enlist international heavyweights like JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley to back an $8 billion capital increase?and has already convinced two big French businesses, Groupama and Caisse des Dépots, to subscribe...
...last time pop music was dealt this card, it went by the name Kurt Cobain, another lower-middle-class kid for whom being messed up was a source of creativity and, eventually, the killer of it too. Cobain told his few high school friends that he had "suicide genes," and there's a dangerous echo of that infatuation with doom in Winehouse's fetish for ill-fated soul singers. No matter how true her music feels, it's hard to tell the difference between pain and performance and impossible to guess how approval reinforces her self-perception...
...have dealt with very stressful situations. What do you turn to for comfort food? Mills Chapman, PHILADELPHIA...