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...violence, and a psychological step closer to actual terror acts. All that's needed, that argument goes, are that the demands of today's rioters be redirected toward jihad. It's true that France has been woefully unresponsive to banlieue aspirations. But mercifully few people there are ready to adopt bin Laden's radical worldview. You're more likely to find those who have done in Iraq than in the French housing projects most rioters still consider home...
Negroponte's surprising hedge comes at a time when the once dominant Bush hard-liners, including the Vice President, appear increasingly isolated within the Administration. An intense internal debate has erupted over whether new Pentagon procedures for handling captured terrorists should adopt the Geneva Conventions' ban on cruel and degrading treatment. A senior Administration source says National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and top military officers favor including the Geneva standards, while Cheney has managed to round up only a few senior Pentagon civilians, such as Under Secretary of Defense Stephen Cambone, to back his opposition...
...than 50,000 people died in the Kashmir earthquake [Oct. 24], hundreds of thousands are injured, a whole generation has disappeared, children are orphans, and villages are completely destroyed. But Pakistan's citizens got together and responded to calls for help. Expatriate Pakistanis all over the world offered to adopt orphans. It was as if the whole country had suddenly changed from a self-interested, disunited nation into a cohesive force facing the disaster...
Shortly thereafter, he persuaded the Faculty to adopt cryptic changes to admissions policy which reduced the percentage of Jewish freshmen at Harvard from 27.6 percent in 1925 to less than 15 percent when he retired in 1933, according to Jerome Karabel’s scathingly comprehensive “The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton...
Greedy lawyers in the private transnational adoptions sector are creating unnecessary family separations, Rosa M. Ortiz, a member of the United Nations (UN) Committee on the Rights of the Child, said in a debate at Harvard last night. Arguing against her was Elizabeth Bartholet, Wasserstein public interest professor of law, who said that the global community should promote international adoption because the children affected generally grow up in loving, healthy families, which otherwise might not be possible. Bartholet and Ortiz made their assertions as part of a debate on the topic of transnational adoptions hosted by the Harvard University Committee...