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...first Man of 1952 was a Danish-born sea captain named Henrik Kurt Carlsen. As the New Year rolled in and all the world watched, he fought alone for the life of his ship Flying Enterprise against the fury of January seas in the North Atlantic. For twelve days he fought, but in the end the Flying Enterprise went down. Captain Carlsen rejected the inevitable Hollywood contract and modestly disappeared, and the world was left still searching for a hero...
...shame to lose them. But at the same time, I think we just really like conflict in France. We always need these face-offs. Here, in the end, it's the one who screams the loudest who's right. Peter Andersen 29, adviser in the youth section, Danish Confederation of Trade Unions Why should employers be allowed to fire young people without a reason? More than anybody else, young people need secure attachment to the labor market. Here in Denmark, young people are given a kind of loose attachment to the labor market and do not have the same rights...
...Gorton was suspended with pay last month along with the editor of the opinion page, Chuck J. Prochaska, for their decision to reprint controversial cartoons of the prophet Muhammad in the Illini’s Feb. 9 issue. The cartoons—originally published by Jyllands-Posten, a Danish newspaper—resulted in world-wide riots by Muslims, some of which turned violent. Newspapers across France and Europe reprinted the cartoons in support of the freedom of the press. Four of those cartoons appeared in The Harvard Salient on Feb. 8. In the editor’s note that...
...conservative Islamists. And successive Afghan governments have come out strongly against proselytizing by Christian missionary groups - they're willing to accept aid, but are hostile to any attempt to secure converts. That may fly in the face of the principle of religious freedom, just as the furor over the Danish cartoons challenged the principle of freedom of speech, but there's little doubt that any appearance of Western powers seeking to defend the right of Christians to proselytize in Muslim lands would touch off a similar response in places such as Afghanistan and Pakistan, frontline allies...
...same thing goes for the Harvard Political Review, which was sent to the presses earlier this week. According to newly inducted Editor-in-Chief Josh Patashnik ’07, the issue is focused on questions of censorship (articles re: Google in China, Danish cartoons). Patashnik will face managing editor Daniel Krauthammer ’07 in a new back-of-the-book point/counterpoint feature. Expect a new website soon...