Just recently, the Israeli cabinet voted to expand the ground war in southern Lebanon in its continued effort to uproot Hezbollah's terror infrastructure, which has been assailing the Israeli civilian population.
It is easy to fall into the trap of treating sophomore summer -- a Dartmouth tradition since the mid-1970s -- as something of a less-than-equal cousin of the Fall, Winter and Spring sessions.
Summer is just around the corner, and, for once, I have nothing to complain about. There I said it -- nothing at all.
American television has reached a new low. In fact, I cannot see how the programming could really get any worse.
There is a recent and disturbing trend in American cinema in which the directors of classic films feel the apparently insuppressible need to revisit and re-edit their most beloved and heralded works in a misguided attempt to "update" them for a newer audience.
Several weeks ago, when Iran's new President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, declared in a speech that "Israel must be wiped of the map," the world reeled in shock as if it expected more from the leader of a "civilized" government.