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...more affluent ones. UNEF, the French National Students' Union, claims the increase at IEP is a sign of privatization. At present there are no plans to introduce across-the-board tuition fees, but students are troubled by proposals to harmonize diplomas to European standards and give individual universities more freedom to allocate budgets and set course offerings. So they've done what French students always do: filled the streets of Paris to protest...
...Ebadi, 56, will be in Oslo this week to receive the 2003 Nobel Prize for Peace. She is being honored as Iran's human-rights champion - a defender of political prisoners, oppressed women, abused children - and though she shuns politics, the award gives a needed boost to the freedom struggle in Iran. Despite high hopes raised by the election of moderate President Mohammed Khatami six years ago, hard-line clerics in Tehran have blocked major change, killing reform legislation and jailing hundreds of political activists, journalists and writers. For the movement, Ebadi's award is an infusion of hope...
...issue of perceiving the nation’s interest is not as important as the attack on our nation’s principles. Our proud belief in freedom of speech, of religion and of assembly, reflects a deep respect for the pursuit of truth through free exchange. Propaganda and noble lies may be good enough for other countries, but democracies demand the truth. Treating the truth as a commodity that can be bought and sold with research funding, as though it were so many head of cattle, is a direct assault on our most fundamental principles...
Students, faculty and alumni, whether from the left, right or center should lay aside differences in ideology and defend academic freedom, a tenet that we all support. Write your senator to explain how this proposal hampers academics and hurts the nation. If it becomes enacted as law, another American tradition will have been destroyed by petty partisan rivalries...
Nearly 4,000 supporters and protesters rallied outside the event, including members of the Tibetan Association of Boston and The Coalition for Freedom and Human Rights in Asia who protested China’s policies and criticized its president...