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...Israel-Palestine conflict is certainly a controversial issue, but carrying the Palestinian flag is hardly an offensive act in itself. The only statement that can be read into the flag with any certainty or legitimacy is support in principle for the existence of a Palestinian state and government??a conclusion which no one but fanatics on either side opposes. Fellow students have been entirely right to rally around a classmate who—far from any extremism—seems to have consistently advocated a peaceful solution to the brutal crisis in his homeland...
...responsibility for the shameful decision, insisting that it only followed a University-wide policy. If this is so, then KSG abdicated its own role in bowing to a foolish rule rather than standing up for peace and inclusiveness. Whoever synchronized Harvard’s political clocks with the federal government??s made a serious mistake, and no matter how many excuses it comes up with, the KSG cannot erase the unconscionable impression that it is afraid of political controversy. In barring the Palestinian flag from this month’s proceedings, the school’s administrators gave...
...administration’s response to this crisis? Siphon cash from the federal government??s general fund so that the burden for cleaning up pollution falls on taxpayers. It is enough to bring even beginning economics students to tears...
...believe that] there needs to be a more continuous, concentrated effort on the government??s part,” she said...
...HMNH has shown itself to be complicit in this situation, especially since tourism almost exclusively benefits the SPDC and impedes progress towards democracy and human rights in Burma. Most of the products sold in Burma are produced by industries tied to the SPDC, and their purchase directly finances the government??s human rights abuses, because the SPDC uses much of its hard currency to purchase arms. As a tourist in Burma, it is impossible to avoid financing the corrupt, fiscally-strapped military regime. The entry certificates paid by the 500,000 visitors to Burma each year supply...