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...Iran recently listed the University as one of the subversive organizations allegedly responsible for the unrest following the nation’s “elections” last June. Apparently, Yale is one of 60 organizations involved in a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad plot to spawn civil unrest within Iran’s borders...
...official news agency, stressed in a terse, three-sentence announcement of the test that the new system "is not targeted at any country," it plainly was a shot across the U.S. bow for its continuing weapons sales to Taiwan. Communist-run China split with nationalist-run Taiwan following the civil war in 1949, and it continues to regard the island as a renegade province. While the U.S. recognizes Taiwan and the mainland as part of one China, it continues to arm Taiwan against any threat of reunification by force - a policy regarded by Beijing as provocative interference in an internal...
...Yemeni government scholarship allowed Anwar to return to the U.S.; in 1991 he enrolled in Colorado State University's civil-engineering program. Friends remember al-Awlaki as a low-key young man who lived modestly in a one-bedroom apartment and drove around Fort Collins in a beat-up old Buick. He prayed at the Islamic Center of Fort Collins but did not stand out as being especially religious and was not active in CSU's Muslim students association...
When Percy went to join the civil rights marchers in Selma, Ala., he took along Rangel, Dinkins and Basil Paterson, the father of New York's current governor. One day, after hearing Malcolm X speak in Harlem, Percy went to his office and said, "Malcolm, you need a lawyer." Percy represented him until his 1965 assassination...
There were also larger race-oriented seminars and reconciliation-themed book clubs. Bibbs founded an annual "Justice Journey," busing Willow staff and black Chicago pastors together to bloodstained civil rights pilgrimage sites. Hybels added black, Hispanic and Asian performers to Willow's music and worship teams. In 2006, Willow introduced a Spanish-language service for Latinos, who were streaming into the area...