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Harvard President Drew G. Faust was not among the 286 American university presidents who signed a petition last week condemning a boycott of Israeli universities, but she had criticized the boycott in a private letter she wrote early last month...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani and Claire M. Guehenno, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Faust Condemns Boycott of Israeli Universities | 8/14/2007 | See Source »

...officials from Reporters Without Borders called for the release of imprisoned Chinese journalists. As if to dramatize their point, police detained a group of foreign reporters covering the event. Protesting Beijing's support for repressive governments like those of Burma and Sudan, some activists have launched a campaign to boycott the Games if China's policy does not change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympic Fever | 8/9/2007 | See Source »

...democracy than a hundred miles of red-white-and-blue bunting. Iowa is all about the power of small, highly motivated groups to influence politics beyond their raw numbers. And that's an American story as eternal as the Boston Tea Party, the abolitionists and the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Courting Iowa | 8/9/2007 | See Source »

...G.O.P. contenders succeed in making the case that technology is only incidental to their objections, they will have a precedent: The major Democratic candidates have pledged to boycott a debate sponsored by Fox News, citing the network's conservative bias as their reason. Right-wing commentators mocked the Democrats for their decision, but the netroots applauded. And whether Republicans can make the case to a general audience that CNN is biased to the left hardly matters - their base voters likely already believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will the G.O.P. Say No to YouTube? | 7/27/2007 | See Source »

...prelude to statehood, is now in shambles. After years of single-party rule by Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, the PA became a paragon of corruption and mismanagement. Hamas won control of the PA's legislature and government in democratic elections of January 2006, prompting a Western boycott of much of the Authority. And after the short, sharp civil war in Gaza in June, Palestinians now have in effect two rival governments - one run by the Islamist militants of Hamas in Gaza, who remain in control of the Palestinian legislature, but whose government has been dismissed by President Mahmoud Abbas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blair's Mideast Mission Impossible | 7/24/2007 | See Source »

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