Word: homelands
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Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff ’75 returned to his alma mater last night to defend the Bush administration’s anti-terrorist tactics—including its domestic wiretapping program—in a speech before a packed audience at Harvard Law School’s Ames Courtoom...
...been a lightning rod for criticism of the Bush administration’s response to Hurricane Katrina and for his own role in crafting the USA PATRIOT Act—met only subdued protests on campus. A student group circulated an open letter inside Ames Courtroom assailing Homeland Security Department policies on immigration. But the group, the Harvard Immigration Project, did not want to take a confrontational approach, according to its co-president, second-year law student Molly Thomas-Jensen...
...group’s letter, signed by three dozen Harvard law students, expressed concern over the Homeland Security Department’s practice of deputizing local and state police officers to enforce immigration law. The letter said this practice, “without adequate training or oversight mechanisms, creates very real dangers of conscious or unconscious racial profiling...
Avalanches, high altitutude and bad weather make the Himalayas a dangerous place for anyone. But for Tibetan refugees attempting to flee their Chinese-occupied homeland, the mountains can be even more perilous. On the morning of Sept. 30, more than 100 international climbers at a base camp on Cho Oyu, the world's sixth highest mountain, watched as border guards from the Chinese People's Armed Police opened fire on a group of several dozen Tibetans ascending the 5,700m Nangpa La, a pass linking China and Nepal. "At first I was thinking it was simply warning shots," says...
Check out the Red Elvises, who describe their music as a combination of “good old rock ‘n roll with ethnic music from their homeland.” The band, formed by two Russian refugees in 1995, derives its name from the duo’s love of the late crooner and their passion for the color red (how apropos...