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...Socialist Government denies it is directing the reinvigorated police activity, insisting that it is a law-enforcement action, not a politically motivated one. ""The Judicial branch acts independently and the Government does not tell the judges what to do", Jose Antonio Pastor, the Basque Socialist Party speaker at the Basque Parliament, told TIME. "[This operation] is not an instrumental action by the Government...
...from the audience at the Harvard Film Archive as children from refugee camps spoke of their homeland over nostalgic music.‘OCCUPATION 101’In a festival like this, politics cannot be easily left at the door—this fact is particularly true for the branch of the festival that takes place at Harvard. Student groups involved in the organization of the festival such as the Alliance for Justice in the Middle East, the Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee and Justice for Palestine were asked to choose the themes they preferred to be covered here on campus...
...second term technically threatened his bid to stay in power and had many Pakistanis scratching their head over what was going on in their country's power politics. The last few months have been rocked by controversy over Musharraf's eligibiity even as he feuded angrily with the judicial branch of government. Friday's ruling appeared to be another round of that tit-for-tat - though tempered by another long-running drama, Musharraf's budding alliance with his old nemesis, the exiled Benazir Bhutto...
...memoir, Peeling the Onion, which was published in Germany last year and in the U.S. this summer, Grass revealed for the first time that, after joining the armed forces at age 16 in the fall of 1944, he was drafted into the SS, the fanatical branch of Adolf Hitler's army -although by the time he took up arms, the war was all but over. (He writes, credibly, that he never actually fired a shot.) Grass's memoir describes in detail the conditions he encountered in the chaotic retreat before the advancing Red Army in the closing months...
...profit, heedless of the impact their activities had on the environment and communities. Things began to change a few years ago, when "social responsibility went from being a topic pushed on China by others to one it took on as its own," says Zhou Weidong, who runs the China branch of the U.K.-based NGO Business for Social Responsibility. Zhou and others largely credit the government for pressuring companies to contribute to a "harmonious society," Beijing's catchphrase for promoting social development along with economic expansion. "Party officials are in all earnestness trying to deal with labor abuses, environmental degradation...