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Stop Withholding Access Today was formed in the late 1980s and became one of the most vocal activist organizations on campus. The group also added its name to the list of complainants in the case of Schkolnick v. The Fly Club...
After a year of outcry at Harvard Law School (HLS) against the government’s pressure to allow military recruitment on law school campuses, a coalition of law schools, students and activist groups sued the Department of Defense on Friday—but Harvard was not among the plaintiffs...
...Expo foundation, which monitors right-wing extremism in Sweden, told TIME that Svensson was not a leading figure in the far right and probably lived "on the periphery of Nazi groups." The far right has a violent past in Sweden, having killed two policemen and a left-wing labor activist in 1999. Poohl said that Lindh may have been targeted by Svensson because she was a symbol of the ruling Social Democratic Party, "which in the far right's eyes is responsible for the multicultural society in Sweden, such as bringing immigrants into the country." Last Friday some...
...Dublin - in their police uniforms. Although the Irish government paid some €50,000 in compensation to the young fashion designer, the officers who assaulted her were never disciplined. Only scant details of other such incidents are ever published. But according to Father Peter McVerry, a Jesuit priest and activist who tracks the cases, in the past five years police have paid out more than €6 million to settle cases involving questionable conduct of the police, or gardaí. And last week, a report by the Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) - its third...
...tradition of journalistic pessimism. That is, in every situation, images of destruction, death and disaster are more newsworthy than the human interest story that tells the tale of Umm Qasr’s municipal elections. Frequently do we hear the mantra of violence in the press recited: antiwar activist Michael Moore, whose ilk dwells on this kind of negative outlook, retells it in Bowling for Columbine; Nancy Reagan and Lynne Cheney lament it in Congressional hearings; thousands of Americans daily note in passing one or another murder featured as the top story in the local newspaper. The more grandiose arena...