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...According to Zepeza, UDLA officials said in a meeting with the paper’s staff that the reason the paper was shut down was the “overly critical” articles and cartoons.Viveros said that there have been threats to fire faculty and expel students supporting the paper and speaking out against the administration.Outraged faculty members who requested a meeting with Chancellor Pedro Palou, the target of many of the controversial cartoons and columns, were not successful, according to Josefina Buxade, an associate professor and the first adviser of the paper.“In my opinion...
...support for the corrupt, violent and self-serving warlords alienated many Somalis - and some analysts argue actually strengthened the popularity of the Islamists, enabling Somalia's top Islamic body, the Council of Islamic Courts, to take over Mogadishu and expel the warlords in June. The arrival of Islamist rule in Mogadishu, and the initial imposition of law and order that accompanied it, was widely welcomed on the war-torn streets of the capital. As Ethiopian troops advanced toward them, thousands of supporters of the Courts were reported to have staged rallies in Mogadishu. The Islamists are are also backed...
Recently in New York City, an unarmed black man was shot to death by police officers who thought he might have a weapon. Why do you think incidents like this keep happening? The police are addicted to a contagious need to expel rounds of deadly bullets. They cannot control themselves because they see their fellow companions do it. They don't carry the same standard they would in more affluent communities. Race only plays a role because there are more blacks and Hispanics in poor communities...
...Cheney, in a 1992 speech to the Discovery Institute in Seattle: “[T]he question in my mind is, how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is, not that damned many. So, I think we got it right, both when we decided to expel him from Kuwait, but also when the President made the decision that we’d achieved our objectives and we were not going to go get bogged down in the problems of trying to take over and govern Iraq...
...ranking figure from Saddam Hussein's regime still at large has told TIME Magazine. In an exclusive written interview - his first to the Western media - Izzat al-Douri said the Ba'ath Party will continue "to mobilize and bring together the energies of the people for the fight to expel the occupation...