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...statement. “A vote for Obama seems a foolhardy leap of faith rather than a choice of lesser evils.” Fried declined to comment on the reasons behind his decision to vote for Obama, beyond referring to a blog post by Sunstein on The New Republic??s Web site that announced the news of Fried’s endorsement. Sunstein compared Fried’s defection from the McCain campaign to that of former Secretary of State Colin Powell, who endorsed Obama earlier this month. “I think this is a really...
...CELEB AFFECTSometimes though, it seems that the time is always and the place is everywhere. Plus, the proliferation of religious groups lining the Square cannot only be attributed to evangelicals and feminist Christians. Instead, the large number of proselytizers infiltrating the “Peoples’ Republic?? has begun to expand to include newer religions looking for recruits. Now, for example, a Harvard student en route to Qdoba could actually get a side of Scientology with their burrito. There are rumors of a roving booth manned by people in coordinated outfits peddling books by L. Ron Hubbard...
Through her readings, Vendler—who is also a contributor to the New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, and the New Republic??provided engaging summaries of the poems before reading them aloud...
...today, Dominican Republic President Leonel Fernandez Reyna will give a presentation in the Tsai Auditorium at CGIS South entitled “Development and Democracy in Latin America: The Dominican Example.” He will probably talk about Dominican Republic??s recent high rate of economic growth, about the reforms made within his country’s justice system and legislature, which have cracked down on corruption and human trafficking and emboldened free trade, and possibly even about Haiti. But he will probably not talk about bateyes, mass deportations, or the indentured servitude that chains thousands...
...Unfortunately, even today, the rights and security of Haitians and Dominico-Haitians are tenuous at best. These stateless individuals, who make up more than 60 percent of the Dominican Republic??s agricultural workforce, are often confined to working villages called bateyes, which are essentially labor camps. A 2007 report by Amnesty International described the Dominican Republic??s 400 bateyes as having living conditions “among the worst in the country,” without access to “the most basic public services such as health care, education, running water, and a sewage...