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...Last November, he submitted a motion at a Faculty meeting, asking his colleagues to commit themselves “to fostering civil dialogue.” He connected what he said were the University’s policies towards Israel with a greater denial of free speech at Harvard...
...cartels have carried out thousands of brutal killings, including mass beheadings and machine gun massacres of their rivals. They have also assassinated hundreds of police, soldiers and mayors. But they have never before staged mass-casualty bomb attacks targeting civilians in public spaces. "This is open terrorism against the civil population," said Ricardo Aleman, columnist for Mexico's El Universal newspaper. "It claims lives with the objective of sowing terror and sending a message to the government...
...quite damaging. Racial rumors that lead to dehumanizing of other groups of people fall into this category ("group X eats humans" or "has cheated the majority"). Rumors that foster distrust between groups also belong here. More spectacular are the many rumors that spark riots in conflict-ridden situations: a civil-rights era government commission found that more than 65% of riots were set off by rumors...
...bold challenge to Washington, Bolivia's President Evo Morales has declared U.S. Ambassador Philip S. Goldberg persona non grata in his country, and requested that he be expelled. The surprise announcement is based on government allegations, as yet undocumented, that Goldberg has fomented civil unrest in South America's poorest country...
...Blaming the gringos for the civil unrest may seem a reach, but Morales knows where his people's hearts lie. In 2002, when the former coca farmer first ran for President, the U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia at the time, Manuel Rocha, made an off-the-cuff threat that Washington would withdraw millions of aid dollars should Morales win. Morales was an underdog at the time, but the threat drove his numbers through the roof - such is the anti-Yanqui sentiment in Bolivia. Indeed, some observers say it was Rocha's slip-up that forced a run-off between Morales...