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...resign comes at a moment when the Kremlin is escalating its intention to dramatically hike gas prices in Ukraine by as much as a fourfold increase. On Saturday (December 31), Putin made Ukrainians another offer: Sign on the new price now, start paying three months later. Unless they accept the offer, which they hardly can, Putin ordered Gazprom to turn off the tap at 10 a.m. on January 1. On Saturday (December 31), Illarionov told TIME: ?Over the last 48 hours things between Russia and Ukraine have been developing under the worst possible scenario on the gas issue...
...that he has an explanation for the failure of French President Jacques Chirac to do what he was elected for. As Duhamel wrote, "Chirac has failed to tackle France's two most pressing social problems: unemployment and the integration of immigrant populations." Duhamel and other French intellectuals must now accept that all the French psychobabble about victimized youth did not explain the riots in the banlieues. What is really sad is the number of burned cars and shops it has taken to open the eyes of France's so-called intelligentsia. Nicolas Thébault Versailles, France The riots that...
...misplaced outrage” to incidents that are supposedly isolated from discrimination on campus trivializes the experiences of victims and their communities. Furthermore, Hastrup’s suggestion that minorities would be better off silencing their disapproval of hateful incidents is a disempowering proposal for minority groups to accept...
...argued that recipients of National Security Letter (NSL) information requests, who are banned from ever speaking about them, should be able to meaningfully challenge this gag order in court. In the version of the Patriot Act under discussion, recipients can argue against the gag order, but the court must accept a government official’s testimony in favor of secrecy as conclusive. Harvard’s Senior Director of Federal and State Relations Kevin Casey said he was glad there has been debate over these sections of the act. Since the original Patriot Act was passed hastily...
...finally back to my home in Tallahassee. When the levees broke and it became apparent that Tulane would not be opening in the fall, my emotions ran the gamut: worry, grief, anger, frustration. Finally, they settled on excitement and tremendous gratitude when Harvard graciously extended the offer to accept a number of displaced students for the fall semester...