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...Crimson and Stags recorded 34 and 30 ground balls, respectively...
Prisons are a breeding ground for groups like the Aryan Brotherhood and the Aryan Circle. When the Texas prisons were desegregated in the early 1980s, whites and blacks were spread evenly throughout the prison system. Blacks, who were 60% of the inmate population, became a dominant force in many cellblocks. It "helped the white-supremacy groups recruit because whites were the minority and were becoming victims," says Sammy Buentello, head of the Texas department of criminal justice's gang-management office. A former state-prison psychologist testified at trial that an assault by black inmates may have played a critical...
...that, you need to be in the right movement at the right time in the right place. The Kurds in northern Iraq were just another bunch of bickering agitators until the U.S. needed them to challenge Saddam Hussein. No one cared a whit for the Kosovars until Slobodan Milosevic ground them into the dirt. (It obviously helps to be the victim of a reviled dictator.) But Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka: Your moment has yet to arrive...
That is why statesmen invented autonomy. It looks like a nice middle ground between immovable borders and the chaos of universal self-determination. "We have to work out these ways of allowing groups of people who feel they have something important in common to have a degree of autonomy within the existing borders," prescribes Samuel P. Huntington, a Harvard professor who has written on the subject. Fine theory, but how does the world accomplish that? And maybe it shouldn't. Existing arrangements of semipartition, like in Cyprus and Bosnia, are also semiprotectorates requiring long-term peacekeeping troops...
Riley's lecture was the first in the Gardner's Eye of the Beholderseries which will continue through June. It will likely be worthwhile to attend other lectures in the series, for even if they are not ground-breaking, they are free for students and allow access to much of the museum, and may, if you're lucky, include a free wine and cheese reception in the Pallazzo...