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...About That Election As a Spanish citizen, I am appalled by the persistent conclusion by some that the terrorists won the Spanish elections [March 29]. The bomb attacks simply set in motion a series of events that added up to defeat for Prime Minister Jos? Mar?a Aznar, beginning with his government's effort to blame the bombings on the Basque terrorists of ETA and to rule out al-Qaeda. This arrogance and cynicism insulted the very essence of democracy by blotting out the truth. If ETA had been responsible for the attacks, Aznar's party would have won, because...
Like University President Lawrence H. Summers’ trope about the woefully ignorant undergraduate who cannot distinguish between a gene and a chromosome, professors are identifying particular issues which they believe any informed citizen ought to know...
...National Security Law by spreading North Korean ideology; to seven years in jail; in Seoul. The Seoul Central District Court concluded that Song, under an alias, had been a member of North Korea's Politburo since 1991, and his ideological writings "misled many South Koreans." Song, a naturalized German citizen, admitted to receiving money from the North, visiting North Korea numerous times and meeting with Stalinist dictator Kim Il Sung in 1991. His son has called him a "political prisoner of conscience," and Song's lawyer says he will appeal the sentence...
...Miss World beauty pageant, after controversy over her marital status; in Bombay. Pandit said she once claimed to be married to a fellow model to rent an apartment. In 1989 Pandit's sister Kalpana withdrew from the Miss World contest when it was discovered that she was an American citizen...
During her time in Paris, Jardine studied at the Ecole Normale Superieure, a previously all-male institution, but Jardine refused to be treated as a second-class citizen. “She showed up and she wanted to live in the famous dorm, the one where people like Samuel Beckett lived,” says Brian Martin, a Winthrop House tutor and long-time student of Jardine?...