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...Sept. 30, 1962, one black student, James Meredith, was escorted through a sea of angry students by Federal Marshals as he walked through campus to register at the law school. Today a statue of Meredith stands prominently on the main campus to commemorate the civil rights struggle...
...Cambridge—said he has grave concerns about the wisdom of a November ballot initiative that would decriminalize possession of the drug. The initiative, championed by the Committee of Sensible Marijuana Policy, would replace criminal penalties for possession of an ounce or less of personal use marijuana with civil penalties. While penalties for selling, growing, and trafficking marijuana would remain unchanged, possession would be punished by a combination of a fines starting at $100, community service, and drug awareness programs. Marijuana possession would also no longer be recorded in the oft-maligned Criminal Offender Record Information system. While some...
Kent calls these works tribunal plays, and in them he has probed German and Bosnian-Serb war crimes, the sale of arms to Iraq, the suicide of British weapons expert David Kelly and the massacre of Irish civil rights marchers by British soldiers on Bloody Sunday. The plays are riveting in their attention to detail and at times heartbreaking, as when a visibly haunted former soldier in Srebrenica recounts his forced participation in the slaughter of Muslims. "We've become the BBC of the theater," Kent says. "We've become a trusted voice...
...importance of debate: "I think all kinds of discourse is good for our democratic society - civil discourse, uncivil discourse, screaming, hollering, poetry, however you want to have a discussion is fine with me. I'm in the civil discourse business...
...Well the military has a role that is defined for them. They can always come in aid of civil administration: that's also provided for in our laws...