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...that occupies so many Americans does not take place here; one does not speak of being African- or Asian-French, for example. If one is French, one is just that, end of story. Unlike at Harvard, where recognizing the diversity of our peers is strictly de rigeur, the French demand that their fellows keep their origins to themselves. As one legislator rhetorically asked on the floor of the French senate in 2004, “must we always call attention to that which divides us, or is it better, rather, to reinforce that which makes us alike...
...hoped that with constant pressure, President George W. Bush would do what most Americans have come to believe is right: bring the U.S. troops home. But my hopes dimmed after reading the cover story. Although congressional Democrats and the majority of Americans may demand a withdrawal, it is not going to happen before Bush leaves office in January 2009. His Administration is operating on the premise that it is worth every cost to avoid anything that could cause a war among Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, all top oil producers. Olutayo Oluyemi, New York City...
Calderón insists that the U.S.'s voracious demand for drugs--as well as the deluge of U.S. guns being smuggled into Mexico--is the key factor driving the drug war. But inside Mexico, security experts say the only long-term solution is to clean up the police culture. This month Public Security Secretary Genaro García Luna, who recently replaced 284 federal police commanders, ordered federal and state officers to undergo training courses with U.S., Canadian and European experts. Many cities and states have announced pay raises of as much as 40% to dissuade cops from joining the narcos...
...Monday representatives from Paris-based NGO Reporters Without Borders held a press conference outside the offices of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games to demand the release of some 100 journalists and online activists imprisoned in China. As if to prove the group's point about the mainland's restrictions on media and freedom of speech, police detained a group of journalists for more than an hour after the event. Amnesty International also issued a statement this week about human rights in the country, warning that the detention of dissidents, harassment of lawyers and restrictions on domestic media...
...Faculties of Arts and Sciences Standing Committee on Women, said that Harvard’s child care is in a “crisis situation.†She estimated that the current number of spots in Harvard child care programs is meeting around half of the demand...