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...rough brown blanket on his metal bunk. "You can't crush an entire people. We need to give peace talks a chance." That means giving Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas enough time to secure the release of prisoners like Mardawi. Palestinian militants agreed to Abbas' request for a halt to attacks, mainly because they believe he'll use a period of calm to push for the release of some of the 9,000 prisoners doing time in Israeli jails - even those like Mardawi, whom Israel classifies as having "blood on their hands," meaning those who killed Israelis or took part...
...meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), asks Faculty to vote “to register dissent from a series of pronouncements by Mr. Summers that minimize the social causes of social inequality and, at times, appear to censor dissenting views on campus; and...to demand a halt to any expansion of presidential prerogatives that will facilitate the application of these pronouncements to the governance of the University...
...members are frustrated with the way Summers is running the University, but that is all the more reason to stay. If every professor who is upset with Summers were to leave, what kind of Harvard would we be left with? Without different viewpoints, change that is sorely needed would halt. We need a diversity of voices at the College, especially at this critical point in time. If over 500 faculty members care enough about Harvard to show up to last Tuesday’s Faculty meeting, then none of them should turn their backs on Harvard until the changes they...
...seat covers, they started talking quietly to each other. Pantano told them, in his rudimentary Arabic, to shut up. They went silent, then started speaking again, this time in muffled voices. Then the two men turned toward Pantano as if to jump him. He told them to halt, and when they did not, he opened up with his M-16. He kept firing until he was sure they were dead. Then, perhaps in shock, he wrote Mattis' words on the sign and placed it on the car--although he soon had second thoughts and took the sign off and threw...
Despite intense criticism of the charges by Pantano's supporters, the case has steadily worked its way up the chain of command--suggesting either its merit or the unwillingness of Marine commanders to halt such a sensitive inquiry. "It is sad but true that the military leadership is likely to let a case go to trial even if the facts do not merit it because they want to cover their asses," says Gittins. But the Marine Corps stands by its decision to prosecute while, as in most cases in the military-justice system, it won't comment on the charges...