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...protect” their content in this way, Harvard students who don’t want to be associated with certain opinions or viewpoints in public will be more willing to speak out. But those with presidential ambitions would still be foolish to relax their guard: we’ve already seen that corporate recruiters use the Facebook as a tool for evaluating potential candidates. There’s little reason to believe that the journalists of the future won’t find a way to get at past blog posts in the same...
There is nothing like a tour of Gaza City to show the clash of styles between the old Palestinian guard and Hamas, the Islamic militant group that swept January's legislative elections. First stop: the gabled, stone mansion of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, high walled and with enough guards to protect Fort Knox. Next: the residence of Ismail Haniya, the newly designated Prime Minister. Haniya, 43, insists on living at his family home?in a Gaza slum, where the lanes are crisscrossed with Hamas' Islamic green flags and clotheslines of wet laundry. There are no gunmen outside Haniya's simple...
...Palestinian guard is disruptive in other ways, too. Hamas has made a plea for national unity, but top Fatah members involved in the negotiations say that their leaders will probably refuse to join Haniya's cabinet. And Fatah is loath to give up cushy jobs. Aziz Dweik, the new Hamas speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, tried to dismiss Ibrahim Khraisheh from his position as the Council's secretary-general. According to witnesses, 20 gunmen ringed the Council building and demanded that Hamas give Fatah's Khraisheh back his post, despite his defeat in the elections. Eventually the gunmen backed...
...extinguisher to put out the fire.” McMillan said he was slightly fazed following his first time using a fire extinguisher or putting out a fire. “It was a little bit freaky,” he said. But Paul Barksdale, a Quincy House security guard who was also at the scene, said that McMillian acted swiftly in putting out the fire. “I can’t say enough for John,” he said. “Right away he took the fire extinguisher...
...good news” and plans. When one hears that Senior Suzy is working for that investment bank next year, Ambitious Abe is going to be a Cambridge scholar, and that Loving Lucy and Enamored Eric are engaged, the last piece of news catches most off-guard: it is the least expected, after all. Getting engaged while in college is not necessarily wrong, but it is just atypical, and thus those who make this decision become a source of scruitiny, and, often, gossip. Though it may seem like many are making their vows, the reality is that these eager-lovers...