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Khaled Mardawi has blood on his hands. In 1992, in his West Bank home village near Nablus, the Hamas activist executed a man he suspected of collaborating with the Israelis. An Israeli court sentenced Mardawi to life in Block 8, the high-security wing of Shikma Prison, on the outskirts of the drab seaside town of Ashkelon on Israel's central plain. These days, Mardawi, a trim 40-year-old with a close-cropped gray beard, says he rejects violence. "We can't crush the Israelis and they can't crush us," he admits, sitting on a rough brown blanket...
Harvard blogs may not necessarily need controversial posts, but Harvard students have never been known for their timidity. Perhaps the Harvard community has a good, solid “Sex in the City”-style blog in its future, or maybe just a witty, radical political activist...
...quite a remarkable background as a social activist as well as a historian,” Coatsworth said...
Minnesota lawmakers last week became the latest to rally to the cause of conservative activist David Horowitz, whose Academic Bill of Rights is meant to rescue students from what the legislators perceive as rampant liberal bias. Over the past two months, Florida, Indiana, Ohio, Rhode Island and Tennessee have also started considering bills that would codify Horowitz's ideas by, say, not allowing students to be punished with a bad grade for their views. Georgia's senate passed a similar nonbinding resolution last year, while Colorado's version was withdrawn after state-university administrators signed a pledge to ensure that...
...hypocrisy, an overzealous bureaucrat came up with a brilliant solution to an age old paradox: How could the United States government break its own laws without getting caught? The solution was to create chains of command tenuous enough so that if a pesky, over-intrepid journalist or human rights activist caught wind of the government’s dastardly deeds, it could disclaim knowledge or responsibility for the entire mess...