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...month after Western governments issued warnings advising against travel to the kingdom. At the time, Saudi officials reacted angrily to the alerts. Called to Account RWANDA Four former cabinet members went on trial at a U.N. tribunal in Tanzania. The four, who are accused of masterminding the 1994 inter-ethnic violence that resulted in the killing of about 800,000 people, denied nine charges of genocide and crimes against humanity. Sudden Crisis SRI LANKA President Chandrika Kumaratunga sparked a political crisis by abruptly sacking three ministers, suspending Parliament and imposing a state of emergency - which she lifted two days later...
Addressing the conflict between schools’ role in educating citizens and multiculturalist demands for diversity, sociologist Nathan Glazer posed this question in his book We Are All Multiculturalists Now: “Groups, racial and ethnic, and women want to see themselves in the curriculum…But what will this emphasis on multiculturalism, on ‘recognition,’ do to our efforts to teach our children truth and the best way to reach it, to promote American unity, to encourage civic harmony...
...Harvard takes seriously its traditional obligation to teach truth and its self-styled progressivism, it should recognize that Western “truth” has shaped the creation of a society where women and ethnic groups are treated equally. Western values include tolerance for many different ethnic and gendered perspectives, which is why women and minority readers will “see themselves” in a Western canon, even if that canon doesn’t include many women and minority authors...
...syllabi focusing on the likes of Mark Twain and F. Scott Fitzgerald marginalize women and minorities—in fact encourage inquiries that invalidate the grotesque marginalization observed in other societies. Shakespeare, for example, challenges students to discover human truths transcending the perspective of any one ethnic group or gender...
...study found that colleges with more ethnic minorities, females and older students have lower drinking rates among those who are most likely to be problem drinkers—white, underage or male students...