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Dozens of tired but enthusiastic Harvard students push through the narrow doorway of Emerson 105 last Monday evening. Drawn in with promises of free Felipe’s burritos, seniors and first-years alike excitedly crowd together and scan the room for friendly faces...
...pointed out Monday that Wang’s profile was taken down, nine days before Facebook.com’s official memorial period. This past week, the profile has been in Facebook limbo, going from online to off in a matter of minutes. As of press time on Tuesday, a search did not bring up Wang’s profile...
...shouldn't stop at those days sacred to Catholics and other Christians. The Greeks, Romans and ancient Northern tribes so revered their gods that they named every day of the week after them (Sunday for the sun god, Monday for the moon god, Tuesday for the Nordic god Tyr, Wednesday for the Germanic god Wodin, Thursday for Thor or (the equivalent of Jupiter), Friday for the German goddess Friga (Venus) and Saturday for the Roman god Saturn. Five of the first six months of the year honored various gods (Janus, Mars, Maia, Juno) and religious rituals (the period of purification...
...Peace talks had been scheduled to begin Monday between tribal elders, militants and the military in pursuit of an agreement on the lines of the one concluded in September with militants in North Waziristan, in which they pledged to stop cross-border activities and attacks on government forces in exchange for those forces withdrawing from the area...
...heavy U.S. presence in Sadr City sparked street protests, with demonstrators calling for an end to the "siege" of Sadr City. And the fact that the U.S. security cordon around the area did not prevent a terror attack on Monday morning that killed at least 26 Shi'ite day laborers and wounding at least 60 people will only escalate the tension. One reason Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has castigated the U.S. for recent raids against the Mahdi Army is the fact that in Shi'ite communities, sectarian militias are often seen as a necessary level of self-defense against...