I won’t soon forget the happenings at Phillips/Rome Hall on the morning of February 9th. Sitting in Transnational Middle Eastern History my fellow classmates and I had no idea what was about to happen. Half way through a lecture on … Continue r...
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The Drama of a Fire Drill
The Drama of a Fire Drill
I won’t soon forget the happenings at Phillips/Rome Hall on the morning of February 9th. Sitting in Transnational Middle Eastern History my fellow classmates and I had no idea what was about to happen. Half way through a lecture on … Continue r...
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Let Prudence Rule
“It could last six days, six weeks… I doubt six months…” -Donald Rumsfeld The American adventure in Iraq is now five years old and an honest analysis is definitely necessary at this juncture, especially with an election approaching. I remember very vividly the debate leading up to the war and I...
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Middle Eastern News: Double Feature
1) The Telegraph (possibly one of the most deliciously, spitefully partisan newspapers on the planet) reports on Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s announcement that 1,000 British troops are returning from Iraq. By turns, the Telegraph (through the mouths of Tories Sir John Major and MP Liam Fox) offers some thinly-veiled criticism, implying that Brown:(a) doesn’t...
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