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...last week, the Harvard Accessible Education Office (AEO) unwittingly thrust this subject into the campus spotlight. The e-mail explicitly instructed students NOT (in capital letters) to attempt to assist their disabled peers in the event of an emergency. Immediately after the directive was disseminated, House e-mail lists lit up with students alternately deeming the policy immoral and necessary. On its face, the policy may seem heartless. But it is the best way for Harvard as an institution to ensure the safety of its students and protect itself from liability. Policy or no policy, students will always make their...
...their finest clothes?colorful sarongs, snowy-white jackets, gold woven headscarves?flocked to the island's beaches at sunset to celebrate their most important festival, Galungan. It's a day when the Balinese recall the legendary victory of Dharma over Adharma, of good over evil. But even as they lit their festive candles and covered the beach with baskets of flowers, it was hard to forget the blood that had so recently been spilled on these same sands?and tempting to wonder if evil has once again regained the upper hand...
Jamal AbuSamhadana meets visitors in a narrow first-floor room in the Gaza Strip town of Rafah, in a dwelling lit only by a small, battery-powered fluorescent strip. He proffers a misshapen right hand for a shake. Shrapnel from an Israeli tank shell broke Abu Samhadana's forearm in 2001. His hand looks caved in, his wrist bends grotesquely and his skin is unnaturally smooth and hairless, as though the limbs had been melted. For a tough guy like Abu Samhadana, such disfigurements are badges of authenticity. "Luckily," he says, "I shoot with my left hand...
...person that sort of lit that torch” said James LaBua, the University’s deputy director of labor and employee relations, who represented the University during its frequent confrontation with the union...
...lit up your world