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Irish and Italian politicians, angered by the Kennedy School’s decision, retaliated by changing the name of the street fronting the school from Boylston St. to John F. Kennedy St. so that the name “Kennedy” would still appear on the school’s stationery, according to The New York Times...
...hopefully will prevent this sort of racist discourse from running under the radar in the future. Many other opinions writers for The Campus Press wrote that they were appalled to see, “If it’s war the Asians want…” appear in the paper...
...India's political leaders, meanwhile, appear to have grasped the reality that political stability and development in Kashmir could be of benefit to all. Violence there has been reduced to the point where the Kashmir insurgency is no longer even the biggest internal security issue facing India. Last year, the number of people killed by a Maoist insurgency in eastern and central India was higher than those killed in the Kashmir Valley. "The entire thinking is changing," says Balraj Puri, the director of the Institute of Jammu and Kashmir Affairs and author of a recent book entitled Kashmir: Insurgency...
...city Lyon, as well as in Nantes, Rouen and Dijon. The left also posted dominant leads in Paris, Lille and Strasbourg, and was in tight races going into run-offs even in such traditional conservative bastions as Marseille and Toulouse. In many close runoff races next weekend, Socialist candidates appear more likely to gain the support of the centrist Modem party, which had once been a coalition partner of Sarkozy's UMP - although the centrists may demand a prohibitive price for throwing their support to the Socialists...
Still, an opportunity for reconciliable Sunnis to turn from the insurgency to participation in the government does not appear to be near. Last week, Iraq's presidential council blocked a proposal for new provincial elections, sending the measure back to the parliament for reconsideration. So U.S. and Iraqi forces in Mosul are left to slog on against the insurgency rooted there without the prospect of a change in the political dynamic that might alter the situation in the way the tribal revolt in Anbar Province against al Qaeda in Iraq did last year...