Violence in Israel continues
August 23, 2011 • Kobi Malamud ('12) / Eastside Radio Manager
Just as it seems tensions in the middle Middle East couldn’t get any worse, Israel has once again joined the chaos after being subjected to recent violence. The trouble began last Thursday after a small group of terrorists snuck into the southern coastal city of Eilat. Upon reaching the city, they... Read more »
East student blogs about experiences in Spain: Post #5
August 5, 2011 • Juliet Brooks ('13)/ Eastside News/Features Editor
I can’t believe it’s all over now. I’m sitting in my own living room in America. If I go out to a restaurant, the waiters will speak to me in English. The day I left my host family, I got on a bus for 14 hours and we drove from Granada to the Pyrenees mountains with the other two five-week... Read more »
East student blogs about experiences in Spain: Post #4
July 26, 2011 • Juliet Brooks ('13) / Eastside News/Features Editor
I´ve got two more days with my host family, and then I move on to the Pyrenees mountains with my group on Tuesday. Camping last week was a lot of fun, but pretty much the same as American camping, as far as I could tell. It´s a little bit difficult to do group activities because when the entire group... Read more »
East student blogs about experiences in Spain: Post #3
July 19, 2011 • Juliet Brooks ('13) / Eastside News/Features Editor
Well, Hermione Granger sounds extremely shrill in Spanish. I´m not sure whether I´m more disappointed that I saw Harry Potter 7 Part 2 in Spanish, or that I understood most of it (every third word was “muerte”) and didn´t enjoy it. In other news, I´ve officially jumped off a cliff.... Read more »
East student blogs about experiences in Spain: Post #2
July 11, 2011 • Juliet Brooks ('13)/ Eastside News/Features Editor
So apparently Frederico Garcia Lorca did a lot while he was in New York in the 1930s. I wish I could tell you what he did, but I can´t. I´m sure someone has told me at some point, but the amount of Spanish I comprehend is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I get. We´ve all been sleeping... Read more »
East student blogs about experiences in Spain: Post #1
July 6, 2011 • Juliet Brooks ('13)/ Eastside News/Features Editor
I´m in Spain right now, sitting at a keyboard where the quotation marks are somewhere above my left hand and the backspace bar says “retroceso.” Also, the ñ is a legitimate button. In fact, I think I´m gonna press it again. Ñ. It´s pretty cool, although admittedly disorienting. I guess... Read more »
Obama outlines plans for Aghanistan
June 28, 2011 • Gilana Levavi ('14)/ Eastside Editorial Assistant
Wednesday night, President Obama outlined his plan for ending the Afghanistan war in a speech delivered from the East room of the White House. Obama announced that troops would begin returning home in July, as promised in a previous address. By the end of this year, 10,000 troops will return, and a total... Read more »
As East Students Prepare For College, Israeli Students Prepare For Army
May 24, 2011 • Gilana Levavi ('14)/Eastside Staff
While the majority of American high school seniors prepare for college or the workforce, Israeli high school seniors prepare for a very different experience. Because Israel has mandatory conscription, almost all Israeli youths enter the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) after high school.... Read more »
Recognizing and reminiscing previous princesses: A new series sheds some light
May 18, 2011 • Moriah Schervone ('11)/ Eastside Global Commentary Editor
Princesses, tiaras, gowns and fairy tales all seem more like fiction, less like reality. Yet when faced with newfound princesses like Kate Middleton, we are bound to question the job of a princess and what these ladies do. Today, they appear as figureheads, charity givers, and chairs of boards. As far... Read more »
2011 Top 10 Most Influential Global Figures
May 16, 2011 • Saul Doane ('11), Eric Kessler ('12), Chris Smith ('12), Eastside Staff
1. Mohamed Bouazizi On January 4, 2011, 26-year-old Mohamed Bouazizi lit himself on fire and died of his wounds two weeks later. He committed this act of suicide in protest of the revocation of his fruit vender license and the ensuing harassment by Tunisian officials. This act of martyrdom was the... Read more »
Weekly Updates
May 6, 2011
THE UNITED STATES CAUGHT AND KILLED OSAMA BIN LADEN IN A $1 MILLION DOLLAR MANSION OUTSIDE ISLAMABAD IN PAKISTAN. Libya: Two journalists died in Libya, marking the first American deaths in the conflict. Chris Hondros and Tim Hetherington, the Oscar-nominated director of Restrepo, died during air strikes... Read more »
Update On Japan
May 5, 2011 • Kobi Malamud ('12)/ Eastside Staff
As horrible as things seem to be going around the world, it is safe to assume that within due time, things will get better. However, in Japan, where a massive 9.0 earthquake struck on March 11th, causing an immense tsunami, things are far from okay. In addition, as time passes, it seems the country’s... Read more »
Weekly update
April 13, 2011
Ivory Coast: soldiers who support Allasane Outtara, the true winner of the contentious presidential elections, have stormed Abidjan , one of the last Gbagbo strongholds left. The opposition forces have strong support from French soldiers. Japan: Japanese officials announced that the evacuation from the... Read more »
Eye of the tiger: taking strict parents to a whole new level
March 25, 2011 • Gilana Levavi ('14)/Eastside staff
Three months ago, the phrase “Tiger Mom” did not mean anything to anyone. But since the release of Amy Chua’s Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother in January, the phrase has been the subject of innumerable heated debates. Chua’s memoir tells of her experiences as a “Chinese mother” (aka Tiger... Read more »
Weekly Updates: the week of March 13, 2011
March 17, 2011 • Diana Yu ('11)/Eastside global commentary editor
Japan: After the devastating earthquake and resulting tsunami in Japan, nuclear meltdowns have become an imminent danger. People in the areas surrounding nuclear power plants have been evacuated, however, some speculate about the permanent damage of a nuclear spill. The disaster has left 700,000 homeless.... Read more »
Jaywalking with Diana and Moriah!
March 14, 2011
This new series features the Global Commentary Diana Yu (’11) and Moriah Schervone (’11) “jaywalking” and questioning East students about their knowledge on current world affairs… and Charlie Sheen. Click below to listen or Right click – save as to download: jaywalking... Read more »
Prosecuting pirates on the high seas
March 13, 2011 • Moriah Schervone ('11)/ Eastside Global Commentary Editor
Even though pirates no longer carry swords or brandish parrots on their shoulders, today’s pirates are affecting more people and nations than ever before. The pirate empire in Somalia is growing exponentially every year. The International Chamber of Congress’s International Maritime Bureau’s Piracy... Read more »
South Korea and North Korea: it’s time to settle the dispute
January 29, 2011 • Christopher Jung ('12)/Eastside staff
Since the division of the peninsula, there have been endless cases in which North Korea used violent subversion and sabotage against South Korea despite the armistice in 1953. For example, in 1983, North Korea sent a three-man team to assassinate South Korea president, Chun Doo Hwan, who was giving a... Read more »
Assange needs to plug up leaks: WikiLeaks releases confidential information
December 20, 2010 • Diana Yu ('11)/Eastside Global Commentary Editor
Secrets, secrets are no fun, but do secret, secrets always hurt someone? Julian Assange would certainly agree so. Starting November 28, the champion of government transparency dumped hundreds of thousands of diplomatic documents and cables on his revolutionary website WikiLeaks. Though this not the first... Read more »
The Taliban must be stopped
December 14, 2010 • Moriah Schervone ('11)/Eastside Global Commentary Editor
By Sunday afternoon, three suicide bombings ripped through the Kandahar province, Afghanistan in two days, killing US and Afghan soldiers alike. The violence in Afghanistan is increasing and the Obama Administration has moved the beginning of the drawdown from 2011 to 2014. We should not be in a hurry... Read more »
Girls rule, boys drool: female heads of state
December 9, 2010 • Gilana Levavi (‘14)/Eastside staff
Since the beginning of time, women have led in government. Egyptian queens are believed to have ruled since 3000 B.C.E., and the first documented female leader ruled in Mesopotamia around 2500 B.C.E. The newest female governmental leader is Dilma Rousseff, who was elected president of Brazil on October... Read more »
Foreign education systems severely in need of reform
October 7, 2010 • Emily Hsu ('12)/Eastside staff
We spend roughly a quarter of our lives acquiring a formal education. After all, as the old adage goes, education is the key to success. With enough hard work, a high school education leads to a college diploma. A job. A car. A future. But what if success hinges not on hard work and determination,... Read more »
WikiLeaks creates a puddle
August 13, 2010 • Moriah Schervone ('11)/ Eastside Global Commentary Editor
WikiLeaks. It sounds evil. Publishing around 92,000 classified government documents so far, the website’s founder, Julian Assange, shows no signs of slowing down. The most recent documents, which have caused the most stir, are the Afghan War Diaries, which is a collection of raw data field reports... Read more »
Participation in the Fifa World Cup throws North Korea into famine
July 12, 2010 • Diana Yu ('11) / Global Commentary Editor
As the 2010 Fifa World Cup draws to a close, it is quite interesting to reflect on its spirited combination of diplomacy and soccer. While there were many upsets this year, perhaps the most shocking and strange was the North Korean soccer team’s announcing that they would compete because “it will... Read more »
Earth needs a Band-aid
June 27, 2010 • Moriah Schervone ('11)/ Eastside Global Commentary Editor
The Earth has hemophilia, and on April 2o, she got stabbed. Instead of blood, there is oil, and lots of it. A little over two months has passed since oil began to surge into the Gulf of Mexico from the oil well, Deepwater Horizon, yet the end of the mess is not even in the foreseeable future. The only... Read more »
Conflicts around the world-Nigeria
May 28, 2010 • Shanice Davis ('12)/Eastside Staff
On May 5, Nigerian president Umaru Yar’Adua died, leaving two conflicts in Nigeria unresolved. Yar’Adua was unable to put an end to religious violence that has taken place in Nigeria for years and was committed to end violence in the oil-rich Niger Delta encouraged by the Movement for the Emancipation... Read more »
Autreen in Iran (Full Version)
January 4, 2010 • Autreen Rahbari ('10)/ Eastside Radio Manager
From the streets of Tehran Freedom square was never packed with so many people. The whole city must have poured into the streets the morning after the election. “President Ahmadenijad retains office” is—in different variations—printed on the front page of every paper in the country. The normally... Read more »
Eastside responds to Goldstone Report commentaries
November 16, 2009
On November 10, a commentary was written in favor of the Goldstone Report. Another commentary written against the Goldstone Report was posted shortly thereafter. Although the ideas expressed in each commentary belonged to the individual authors and not Eastside itself, we are aware that people’s... Read more »
CON: The Goldstone Report and you
November 12, 2009
On November 10, a commentary was written in favor of the Goldstone Report. Another commentary written against the Goldstone Report was posted shortly thereafter. Although the ideas expressed in each commentary belonged to the individual authors and not Eastside itself, we are aware that people’s... Read more »
PRO: The Goldstone Report and you
November 10, 2009
On November 10, a commentary was written in favor of the Goldstone Report. Another commentary written against the Goldstone Report was posted shortly thereafter. Although the ideas expressed in each commentary belonged to the individual authors and not Eastside itself, we are aware that people’s... Read more »
Problems in Latin America
August 28, 2009 • Dan Perlman ('10)/ Eastside Global Commentary Editor
Recently, there was an instance of social turmoil in Brazil that went a long way towards illustrating some fundamental and terrifically frustrating issues facing Latin America and our own country today. This video here from The Guardian gives an encapsulated summary of the incident. In brief, a slum... Read more »
Dan Perlman’s summer news update
August 11, 2009 • Dan Perlman ('10)/ Eastside Global Commentary Editor
So far this summer: Workers in South Korea, bastion of East Asian capitalism, lost their factory jobs. Occupying the factory for a short period in protest of their sudden launch into joblessness and imminent poverty to allow factory owners to increase profits, the workers lived off of scant food and... Read more »
The must-sees of Yellowstone National Park
July 21, 2009 • Shelly Tan ('10)/ Eastside Video Editor
Yellowstone. The mere name conjures up images of sprawling forests, grandiose mountains, and other startling creations of nature. Unfortunately, many Americans have never gotten the opportunity to visit this great national treasure, and those who do often find themselves strapped for time, limited... Read more »
North Korea struggles to make news
July 4, 2009 • Moriah Schervone ('11)/ Eastside Global Commentary Editor
With the numerous, surprising deaths of many prominent celebrities occurring this past week, the threats stemming from North Korea have been overshadowed in the American news programs. North Korea is a country plagued with a dictator, Kim Jong Il, who seems determined to threaten America in anyway... Read more »
