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...they are maintaining Islamic values." On the streets outside the campuses, intimidation is also rife. When more than 10,000 people gathered outside Tehran University on Students' Day, they were constantly moved on by police wielding truncheons. Shirazi helped one woman who had been beaten limp out of the fray; she saw another arrested by plainclothes security agents and taken away. "Don't tell us how to live, what to wear, what to eat and what not to eat!" she said. Her frustration with the regime is widely shared among ordinary Tehranis. But people have other priorities as well. With...
Benazir Bhutto, the exiled former Prime Minister and leader of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), joined the fray. In a challenge to Musharraf, Bhutto was prepared to cast aside her pro-Western views and instruct her party to back the Islamic religious parties' candidate for Prime Minister, Maulana Fazlur Rehman. Musharraf moved fast. First, his aides released Bhutto's husband Asif Ali Zardari from his hospital jail, where he had been held on charges of corruption, and allowed him to visit his dying mother in Karachi...
...Making matters worse, China's two huge fixed-line operators?China Telecom and China Netcom?have jumped into the fray by offering a cheap alternative to cellular service via a wireless technology first introduced in Japan in the 1990s. Called the Personal Handyphone System in Japan but renamed Xiao Lingtong (Little Smart) in China, the service doesn't allow callers to roam outside their area code and reception is often poor. But per-minute charges are about 1 and only the caller pays, compared with the 5-a-minute charge assessed both caller and receiver by the established mobile carriers...
...criticism of Paulin’s invitation was that, given the kinds of things he says, the English department shouldn’t have invited him—not that it didn’t have the right to do so, or that the University should step into the fray. Moreover, the English department chose of its own accord to un-invite Paulin and then to re-invite him. If public criticism had anything to do with these decisions, that says more about the department’s lack of backbone than about any real limitations on free speech...
Harvard hopes that Wilkins’ rookie season sets a precedent for the four freshmen—Moira Weigel, Allison Fast, Tina Brown and Courtney Wallach—entering the fray this season. With gaps left in the middle of the lineup after the graduation of Carlin Wing and Colby Hall, the first years will be expected to strengthen the depth of the team...