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...assume, for the sake of argument, that the fundamental charges made by the Council of Europe last week are accurate: that, since 2001, 14 European countries have, to varying degrees, been complicit with "extraordinary renditions," the cia's system of moving suspects to countries where they were, or may have been, tortured. Dick Marty, a Swiss parliamentarian who led the Council's investigation, slammed what he called a "reprehensible network" of European nations that, he said, allowed the cia to operate on their soil, provided stopover points for suspects en route to a torture location, or exchanged information with...
...Toronto, says he doesn?t see a direct connection to Canada?s military role in Afghanistan. ?I don't think it is especially because of what we're doing at the moment, but more because of a sense that Canada is part of that Western camp and is equally complicit with the United States and others in what these people regard as a generalized assault on the values and security of Muslims and Islam in general.? However, he added, ?The connection that has to be worrying is that if Afghanistan is seen by young Muslim radicalized youth in Canada...
...should be cast into for her transgression (the eighth), I ask that we pause for a moment and empathize with our embattled classmate. It should not be very difficult to do so if we honestly consider our own intellectual and cultural position. As a community, Harvard is more than complicit in the production of inauthentic chick lit, that regrettably pervasive genre of packaged pop culture easily digested by teenage girls. We encourage and even inspire it. Harvard, I am most distressed to recognize, is at risk of becoming a bit like chick lit itself. The ivory tower has fallen...
...move to divest. Cambridge generated national press when it became the first city in the nation to issue same-sex marriage licenses, and the council has routinely passed resolutions condemning the war in Iraq. In 1989, the council passed a resolution prohibiting the city from financially supporting companies complicit in South African and Namibian racial segregation. Last month, in a move that activists said reflects the impact of the growing divestment movement on the Sudanese government, Sudanese Ambassador Khidir Haroun Ahmed posted an open letter on the government’s website calling for the end of divestment because...
...waging its own campaign against Coke, and the effort is gathering increased attention. Last week, SLAM leader Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky ’07 sent an e-mail to House open lists a list of alleged human rights abuses. Among them, Gould-Wartofsky alleged that Coke was complicit in the murder of Colombian union organizers and the depletion of water sources in India.The e-mail, which was the first mass-distributed iteration of SLAM’s allegations against Coke and included links to outside sources, led to an immediate response by Joshua M. Reilly...