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...only to a segment of the student population,” she added. Faust said that she would invoke the past to demonstrate the important relationship between military service and citizens’ rights. “I think here about the ways in which military service and full citizenship have been so closely aligned, and as a civil war historian in particular, I think about what military service meant to African Americans,” she said. “And I think we see another issue here with another segment of the population that’s been...
...come upon opportunities that offer such a direct means of teaching ourselves humility. We are told that volunteering might war with our ego-centrism, but many programs place the volunteer in a level of hierarchical advantage, whether it’s as a teacher for an immigrant seeking citizenship or even as a van driver for helpless children. Volunteering is very often more concerned with bringing others up than with bringing oneself down to earth...
Washington, who discovered his genetic link to the Mende people of Sierra Leone and will earn his Sierra Leonean citizenship next month, extended this idea to all African Americans. He said he urges African American celebrities to take up the cause, as well...
...while the State Department helped coordinate Richardson's trip, the effort still stands in sharp contrast to the crusade that French President Nicolas Sarkozy is waging for the release of another FARC hostage, former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, who has dual French-Colombian citizenship and has often been held alongside the Americans. Sarkozy has sent a humanitarian mission to Colombia to gain access to the ill and emaciated Betancourt, 46, who was abducted in 2002. She "is in danger of imminent death," Sarkozy warned in a French TV broadcast aired in Colombia. "You who lead the FARC, you have...
...Gulf before 1948. Her family had lived peacefully and prosperously in Aleppo, Syria for generations, but after the partition of Palestine, Jews living in Syria, as well as in other Muslim countries, were persecuted through government legislation and action that deprived them of human and civil rights, nullified their citizenship, and seized their property. My grandmother was separated from her family, but many other Jews were tortured, murdered, detained, and expelled. The once-thriving Jewish communities of these Muslim countries that had existed for 2,500 years are now gone. My grandparents can’t return to their former...