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Instead of demanding apologies every time a Democrat is treated unfairly, the Democratic Party should take a stand and boycott all Fox-sponsored events for the 2008 presidential cycle...
...marched them to the voting booths for ratification just seven days later, giving Egypt's Kifaya (Enough) opposition movement little time to mobilize a "no" vote. A heavy police presence and the arrests of 50 activists disrupted Kifaya's plans to stage nationwide protests. But Kifaya's vote boycott dented the legitimacy of the foregone outcome (officially 79.5% approval). While elections officials claimed a 27% voter turnout, Kifaya leader George Ishak put the number at no more than 3%; the truth is probably somewhere in between, hardly evidence of an enthusiastic electorate. Already Amnesty International had denounced the amendments...
...Rice and the Europeans have refused to join Israel in this blanket boycott; but the Secretary of State is not about to embrace Hamas either. However, if she wants to get something going between the Israelis and Palestinians, Rice will have to figure out a way to deal with Hamas - without explicitly dealing with Hamas. As it is, she intends to conduct wide-ranging talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (with whom Israel will speak) and last week had Jacob Walles, the U.S. Consul General in Jerusalem, meet with Palestinian finance minister Salam Fayyad, a former World Bank official...
...Eliot University Professor Lawrence H. Summers critized higher education practices in a lecture at Tufts University yesterday that drew extensively on his experiences as Harvard president. The speech, including some of his first public remarks on education since his resignation last year, came amidst protest and promised boycott from some Tufts faculty members, who objected to comments he made in 2005 about the intrinsic aptitude of women in math and science. Summers led with jokes that brought laughter from the audience of Tufts students and professors. He wryly said his view of academia before his Harvard presidency...
...Tufts administrators said that the atmosphere has cooled and they no longer expect a boycott to occur. Bacow, who asked Summers to speak one year ago, defended his choice...