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...Kabul last week, killing four other people, the politician appeared on television to lay blame-not on al-Qaeda or a resurgent Taliban, but on the President of neighboring Pakistan. "Pervez Musharraf, a dishonorable person, ordered the attack," Mujaddedi thundered, an accusation that Pakistan's Foreign Ministry called "baseless...
...continuously takes Islamophobia to be something okay.” Junaid M. Afeef, Gorton’s attorney and a founding member of the Muslim Bar Association in Illinois, said that he felt the publisher’s decision to suspend the two editors was an overreaction and a baseless decision by the publisher, Mary Cory. While Afeef said he regretted that the cartoons were ever drawn in the first place, he felt that Gorton’s motives were justified. “It’s important for these types of things to be discussed...
Further, both episodes reflect a troubling fear on the part of the administration that Harvard students are prone to violence when confronted with opinions with which they disagree. If nothing else, this recent Salient incident has shown such fears to be baseless: the most visible response to the publication of the cartoons has been a civil discussion organized by the Harvard Interfaith Council and the Harvard Political Union, and co-sponsored by various campus religious and political organizations...
...Hwang's fraud?investigators ruled that his claims to have cloned human embryos and derived stem cells from them were baseless?reminded the world that the scientific method could be perverted by nationalism or the drive for publicity and glory. Not that the cynics needed reminding. A survey of 3,247 scientists published last June by the University of Minnesota and HealthPartners Research Foundation reported that up to a third of the respondents had engaged in ethically dubious practices. But thanks to the international scope of Hwang's scandal, the public's faith in science?rarely unconditional even in times...
...Assad government has angrily rejected the U.N. findings as baseless, charging that they rest on the hearsay of faithless witnesses, though a Syrian spokesman has also held out the possibility of giving better cooperation to U.N. investigators in the future. But Syria's problems aren't about to go away. Mehlis says he needs two more months to complete his inquiry because of the Assad government's halfhearted cooperation. That charge gave fresh ammunition to Syria's critics in Washington and Europe, who are threatening to pursue economic sanctions against the regime if it fails to make a full accounting...