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...Park, the club’s political and outreach chair. Park, a second-year student at the Law School, met Kang in 2007 in South Korea and wanted his fellow students to hear her story. “The mission of these surviving comfort women is for Japan to claim responsibility and apologize to the victims,” Park said. “It is important to give students an opportunity to hear this woman’s story. Education is part of the mission...
...activists, told a state legislative hearing earlier this month. The names were entered into the Maryland state database, as well as a federal Washington-Baltimore High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area database, and some of them may have been shared with the National Security Agency - though current state police officials claim none were entered into the official federal terrorist watch list. All of the victims are being sent letters notifying them of their inclusion in the database, and their information will soon be purged...
...defined Harvard’s season more than any other. In 2006, the Crimson crushed the then 14th ranked Bears 6-2. Current co-captain Michael Fucito had two goals and three assists in the match. Harvard went on to sweep the rest of the league schedule and claim the Ivy title. But last year Brown was able to exact revenge on the Crimson in a 3-2 overtime win. Harvard was twice able to come from behind in the second half, but a goal early in overtime propelled the Bears to victory in the match, and to the peak...
President Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua's macho and mustachioed Sandinista commandante of the 1970s and '80s, may claim the mantle of revolutionary "new man," but Latin America's feminists insist Ortega is a dirty old man. Throughout the continent, Ortega is being hounded by feminist groups over his alleged sexual abuse of stepdaughter Zoilamerica Narvaez during the 1980s. The allegation first surfaced in 1998, but was eventually dismissed by a Sandinista judge without investigation or trial - despite an investigation by the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights, which determined that the case had merit. In most democracies, the furor would have been...
...when police noticed that the original Italian warrant for her apprehension that had been reactivated in legal databases. To many in France - where sympathy with reformed leftist radicals is widespread - the right's welching of the Mitterrand amnesty left Petrella unfairly hanging out to dry. Some also claim a July-dated letter she wrote near death expressing regret to her victims - and published by the daily Le Monde Wednesday night - indicates violent criminals can be reformed through forgiveness after all. But to victims of leftist terror in Italy, it was a case of justice proffered and then dashed...