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While the jokes may have amused many students, the blatant sexual innuendos have turned off some voters. A member of the Radcliffe Union of Students—a feminist group on campus—expressed her concerns over the RUS e-mail list regarding the campaign’s use of the phrase “Long-Johnson never takes no for an answer...
...Gypsies is an issue that many Westerners either partake in or completely ignore, yet American indifference allows the cycle of discrimination against Gypsies to perpetuate itself in Europe. While Gypsies may not have the education or political clout to take a stand for themselves, the West cannot ignore the blatant racism and violence directed toward what is the largest minority group in Europe...
...every major vote since the fall of communism, reports of vote-rigging, ballot box-stuffing and voter intimidation were rife. In the most blatant violation, one polling station in Moscow recorded zero votes for the opposition Yabloko Party, even though its leader, Sergei Mitrokhin, and his family had all gone there to vote. (Their votes were later found during a recount.) It was a typical landslide day for United Russia. The party claimed victory in virtually all 7,000 races, in some cases by improbably wide margins. (See pictures of the recent war in Georgia...
...Ramzi Kassem, a City University of New York law professor who represents Gitmo detainees, said that given those concerns, prosecuting such cases before military commissions would "evidence blatant disregard for the law and be symptomatic of how military commissions were created to produce convictions at the expense of justice and legality." Which is another reason that the newly reformed commissions may not help close Gitmo anytime soon...
...many ways, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee’s move seems to be little more than a rebuke of the previous administration. It would be naïve to say that the Nobel Peace Prize is not a political statement, but this year the political agenda appears particularly blatant. The award seems in this case to be a reaction that was 8 years coming, rather than a matter of desert...