Word: boycotts
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...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...
Associate Professor of Music John McDonald, in a letter to the Tufts Daily on February 14, called for a boycott of the event by encouraging students to "come next door to the Granoff Music Center at 8 p.m. on March 14 and hear some challenging new music instead...
Goldstein added that he expects "quite a few of us to boycott," and that there "may even be some protests...
...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...