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...Born in Thailand, Vergès fought in the French Resistance before becoming a lawyer, defending Communist students who protested the departure of French soldiers to the Algierian war. In Algeria he took up the case of Djamila Bohired, the anti-colonial bomber of cafés. After he won her freedom, they married and had two children. He then vanished for eight years, returning to become the lawyer of choice for terrorists - or freedom fighters? - from Europe and the Middle East. ("Today's Palestinian," he says, "is yesterday's Algerian.") Some of these participants speak fondly onscreen of their...
...referring to environmental challenges and saying "It's time we asked Americans to be patriotic about something other than war." Former Nevada Senator Alan Bible said, "We labor long and earnestly for peace because war threatens the survival of man. It is time we labored with equal passion to defend our environment." Mary Wear, Arlington, Texas...
...what many ever-more-curious e-mails over GOP-open have hinted at: What can this make Jeff Kwong, other than a hypocrite? But despite so many challenges, he has refused (perhaps because he’s unable) to defend this position when challenged over GOP-open...
Hewitt counters that Romney is facing a double standard, born of a barely hidden bias. "It is unreasonable to demand that a Mormon candidate expose and defend his deepest beliefs in rational terms in order to reassure voters that he is of sound mind," he says. He warns Evangelicals hostile to Romney's religion against colluding with those he sees as hostile to all religions. "The secular left that does not like people of faith in the public square is very happy to have a group of Fundamentalists raise this issue and be a battering ram," Hewitt argues...
...undergraduate identity ranks as one of the biggest problems that Harvard College faces today, and campus-wide events directly help combat this problem. At Harvard-Yale, the year’s biggest campus-wide event, we students bring out our Harvard sweatshirts and Crimson face paint, willing to defend Crimson football to the death. But that one weekend in November is the only time we unite under the banner of Harvard. While we do not and may never have the kind of unity that state schools build from huge sporting events or frat parties, Harvard students do want a greater...