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...provide vital moral support for their cause.For these reasons, a coalition of students has united to sponsor the Iran Freedom Concert this weekend. Many campus organizations, including an unusual alliance between the Harvard College Democrats and the Harvard Republican Club, have come together with a leading Iranian student activist, Akbar Atri, to do our small part to put this issue on the map here in Cambridge. Harvard will be leading an international campaign—spanning from Georgetown, Duke, and the University of Pennsylvania to Oxford—of students expressing solidarity with Iran’s students and citizens.Our...
...Bush Administration is being won by the hawkish element that favors a more aggressive approach aimed at ousting the clerical regime. It recently allocated $75 million for activities designed to promote democracy and undermine clerical rule in Iran, and is reportedly gearing up the State Department for a more activist role in relation to Iran. The problem facing Washington this week, however, is that very few countries share a regime-change agenda for Iran, and if they suspect that this is the motive driving the nuclear confrontation, Washington may find it much tougher to keep allies on board...
FOUND DEAD. TOM FOX, 54, American peace activist who, with three colleagues, was taken hostage in Iraq in November. Fox's battered body turned up in a Baghdad dump. So far, at least 55 foreign hostages have been killed by their captors in Iraq...
...Kelly and other victims of cruise-ship crimes, changes like those won't address the larger issue of whether the industry can be trusted to police itself. A recently formed activist group called International Cruise Victims is pushing to place the equivalent of federal air marshals on cruise ships...
...That’s one thing I admire about HRL, because they’re out there actively trying to change people’s opinions...which is what I think activist groups should do,” said Smith...