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...injustice and advocate human rights. In fact, our liberty can serve as the best weapon against oppression: Our voice has an impact, and its reverberations are felt around the world. College students like you and me have been messengers of hope for decades, and we shouldn’t desist now, especially at an institution with the international reputation of Harvard?...
...Although the Iranian officials with whom U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker has met in recent months have shown little flexibility, Crocker has lately begun to suspect that Iran may have begun to heed U.S. demand that it desist from supporting and training Shi'ite militia fighters. Speaking to reporters in Baghdad, Crocker cited a virtual cessation of mortar and rocket attacks on the Green Zone - strikes that military officials had claimed were becoming more accurate because of help the shooters were getting from Iran. Crocker also pointed to the announcement by Shi'ite militia leader Moqtada al-Sadr calling...
...remains especially popular among the more than 2 million displaced people languishing in camps. Driven from their villages across a vast, blighted landscape, those people are key to whether a peace deal will stick, or whether rebel groups will keep fighting even if Sudan's government agrees to desist. One aid worker, who did not want to be named, said people in Darfur's camps last month listened to taped messages by Nur, sent clandestinely from Paris, and that local leaders spoke regularly to him by satellite phone. "The world is a little village," Nur says, refusing to detail...
...known as the “serial whisperer,” who targeted female students by calling dorm numbers consecutively, often saying that he needed company or asking lewd questions. In 2001, HUPD ultimately traced the calls to South Florida, where local police ordered the man to cease and desist. The phone calls then stopped temporarily. In the fall of 2003, however, students again began receiving morning calls from a whispering man. There were more reports of inappropriate phone calls in 2004. Catalano cautioned against assuming that the “serial whisperer” has returned, noting that...
...emboldened civilians join the movement in greater numbers, Burma's junta may feel forced to act. Already, its leaders have given signs that their patience may be wearing. On Monday evening, the nation's Religious Affairs Minister was quoted on state television ordering the monks to cease and desist. Meanwhile, a human rights group in London reported that some soldiers were being ordered to shave their heads, possibly to penetrate the crowds of marching monks and cause internal strife...