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...report, produced after a year-and-a-half-long study by Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson and her associates, sheds little new light on the question. Instead, it delivers the same old line about female undergraduates possessing "dual citizenship with full privileges in both colleges." This claim is dubious, at best. For some women students, the joint Harvard-Radcliffe diploma they receive at Commencement is the extent of their involvement with Radcliffe. Somehow that doesn't quite seem like dual citizenship...
...should not relinquish our names or identities for the misguided protectionism that has always kept us from full citizenship," she said...
Hart, who had spoken to an undergraduate study group on public service earlier in the day, said that a renewed sense of community involvement is needed after an era that emphasized the rights and opportunities of citizenship and neglected its duties and responsibilities...
Life under non-Kurdish rulers has not been easy. Teaching the Kurdish language is prohibited in Iranian and Syrian schools. In Turkey singing a Kurdish ditty can bring a jail term. Syria has revoked the citizenship of many of its Kurds to punish their rebelliousness. Iraq has expelled tens of thousands of Kurds from their homes, and in 1988 gassed the town of Halabja, killing 5,000 people. The world community scarcely took notice...
...government is drafting illegal aliens and shipping them off to fight in the war. The prospect of combat hasn't deterred some Mexican nationals already living in the U.S., however, from trying to join the military. Army recruiters contend the aliens attempt to enlist, mistakenly believing they can obtain citizenship...