Volume III December 31, 2007 Number 53
HARVARD SQUARE COMMENTARY
A Political, Social, Literary Journal
Politics
On the same day and page last week that the online Jerusalem Post reported that Ha'aretz Daily's Editor-in-Chief said to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that...
Anyone who writes commentaries for a living - or, in the present instance, in retirement - has learned that he/she is bound, from time to time, to rub a reader the wrong way...
Hey, we're number 42! That's where the United States ranks in regards to life expectancy according to...
• Revealing Thoughts
• Dialing Back
• Happy Living
• Hubris
• Experience
• Business As Usual
• Taking Charge
Everything Else
A powerhouse version of Pomp and Circumstance reverberated through the coliseum as the chancellor...
December Boys is an overly sentimental and cliché ridden tale, but it has a special something that makes it work...
From the minds of Nash, Stanhope, Auden, and Mankiewicz
Three women, two younger, and one senior citizen, were sitting naked in a sauna...
In 2007
Editor's Panel
I have no New Year's Resolutions to report nor do I have a summary of what 2007 meant in the annals of the years...
As far as I can tell here on this final day of 2007, there are three value systems contending for what might be called, loosely, the American soul...
Definitions you will not find in the normal dictionary...
• Iraq 'torture complex' discovered
• Priests scuffle at Church
of Nativity
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