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...However, by falsifying, manipulating, and distorting facts, and leaving context wholly absent, this advertisement serves to spread lies that slander the state of Israel rather than promote the Palestinian cause. Propaganda of this sort in a public forum is libelous, dangerous, and unacceptable, and completely contradicts the aim of civil and honest discourse that is central to University life...
...meeting inevitably kindled memories of the last time the KMT and the Communist Party joined forces?in 1937 to fight the Japanese?and the 1945 meeting in which Mao Zedong and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek reached a shaky agreement, which collapsed into the final four years of civil war that forced the KMT to Taiwan...
...Heng-ming, 86, an army colonel during the period of KMT rule, has the advantage of the long view. Wu still has Communist shrapnel in his throat and stomach from the civil war. When his army retreated to Taiwan, he left behind his wife and infant son. Years later, Wu learned that his wife's father was killed by the abandoned son during the Cultural Revolution. "He tortured him," Wu says. "It was a time when the young were told to turn against their elders." He says he no longer harbors resentment against the Communists and says the ghosts...
...LIFTED. STATE OF EMERGENCY, by Nepal's King Gyanendra, three months after he dissolved the government and suspended civil liberties in a move widely condemned by human-rights groups and foreign governments; in Kathmandu. Despite the end of emergency rule, the King will maintain the controversial Royal Commission for Corruption Control, which last week arrested former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba amid alleged irregularities in multi-million dollar drinking-water contracts awarded during his tenure. Mr. Deuba has denied the charges, calling the Commission "unconstitutional" and "illegal...
...natural resource endowment paradox,” which holds that developing nations with the greatest endowments of natural resources frequently develop more slowly and unsuccessfully than similar nations with less natural wealth. These are also the countries with the most corrupt government and the least civil liberties. There are a number of theories as to why this is so, but the consequence is clear: with the exception of Norway, almost every oil-rich country is “shady” in some...