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...janitors and students are doing is not civil disobedience. When Gandhi went to jail for protesting British imperialism and refused to eat for such a long time that he nearly died, that was civil disobedience. When Dr. King went to prison for fighting for civil rights and was regularly beaten by racist sheriffs, that was civil disobedience. When Nelson Mandela languished in his jail cell, that was civil disobedience. So when Harvard janitors march to protest that they are not getting a big enough pay raise, forgive me for not hailing them as martyrs...
...Prime Minister's difficulties navigating the Ayodhya issue are compounded by recent setbacks at the polls - his party was badly beaten in three recent regional elections, including in the key state of Uttar Pradesh, which includes Ayodhya. Hindu nationalists charge that Vajpayee's moderation on the temple issue cost him the local election. Now, that issue has put him on a collision course with an activist core constituency of his own party. It may be easier, right now, for a government with Hindu nationalist credentials to crack down on extremists than for one with no connection to the movement...
Sure, the Crimson has beaten tougher opponents throughout the course of the season, but no other game had as big of an impact on Harvard’s standing in the ECAC...
...Republican, and he speaks in a Texas drawl, and we are at Hahvahd. Which means, of course, that we are obliged to prove how much smarter we are than the cretin from Crawford. So we take our lead from the French (who, when it comes to snobbery, have us beaten) and call Bush’s “axis of evil” comments simplistic, uninformed, antagonistic, unilateralist and any other negative adjective that comes to mind...
...Harvard men, it was a different story entirely, as the Crimson fell to the No. 4 Bulldogs 6-3, despite having beaten them 9-0 each of the last two years. The loss left Harvard (6-3, 4-2 Ivy) with the fourth seed and gave Yale (17-2, 5-1 Ivy) the third spot in the NISRA Team Championships, which start today at the Barnaby Courts in the Murr Center...