Saturday, July 15, 2006
“Nah,” They Said. (11:53 PM) - Edith Lederer reports for the Associated Press: “N. Korea rejects U.N.’s limited sanctions.”…
MSNBC Reports on Students at American University of Beirut (06:00 PM) - Via an e-mail from reader Alex Riemer, this MSNBC report on forty American students, all taking an Arabic program this Summer, trapped in Lebanon. The end of the article notes:U.S. State Department officials are discussing the possibility of evacuation with…
Ready for War (05:43 PM) - The Strategic Forecasting folks have just dispatched this, with the headline “Red Alert”:We are now in the period preceding major conventional operations. Israel is in the process of sealing the Lebanese coast. They have disrupted Lebanese telecommunications, although they have…
A Dispatch from Beirut (04:19 PM) - Dartmouth sophomore Harrison Davies is studying overseas this Summer, and just left Beirut, where he had been taking classes. Harrison sends the following message and photograph of Lebanese soldiers stationed just outside his dormitory: Thursday night was the last night…
Say, Didn’t There Used To Be A Blog ‘Round Here? (11:11 AM) - A quick glance at the official blog of the Alumni Governance Task Force — the group which drafted a proposed new constitution for Dartmouth’s Association of Alumni — reveals a major change of heart. Not as regards the text of…