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...whole movement was that it started out with the divestment petitions and the columns and the conversations. Those were rejected,” Terry said. “We did Senior Gift Plus. The entire campus flips out. It’s picked up by Air America and German TV, just everywhere, right. Harvard is just thrown for a loop. They make the decision to divest faster than they probably would have...
...Faculty meeting, when Professor of German Peter J. Burgard asked Summers whether the Faculty would vote on Allston plans, Summers answered with a simple...
...would have ruined a lesser pol. Many Iranians blame him for prolonging Iran's eight-year war with Iraq by encouraging Khomeini to continue fighting after Iran's decisive recapture of the gulf port of Khorramshahr in 1982. As President, Rafsanjani withstood criticism from human-rights activists and a German court for ignoring, if not approving, the murder by Iranian hit squads of regime opponents in Europe; the Iranian government rejected the accusations outright. Rafsanjani's critics view him as opportunistic, corrupt in financial dealings and lacking guiding principles. "Have you ever heard of Machiavelli?" asks Ibrahim Yazdi, head...
Just how doomed is German Chancellor Gerhard Schrder's political future? His party, the Social Democrats, suffered a decisive election defeat last week in the party's longtime stronghold of North Rhine-Westphalia-a loss so humiliating, the country's media likened it to George W. Bush's losing Texas. But once the returns were in, Schrder shocked the country right back by putting his job on the line and calling for national elections in September, a year earlier than originally scheduled. Was Schrder, who has served as Chancellor since 1998, cannily distracting voters from his party...
...power of trade unions.) But on international affairs, she is likely to be somewhat friendlier to Washington. While Merkel has criticized the stridency of Schrder's Iraq-war opposition, a spokesman for her party said that like the current government, the Christian Democrats would not support sending German troops to Iraq. -By Andrew Purvis