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...banned in all their main overseas bases: the U.S., Britain, Australia and Canada. Bank accounts have been frozen. But the pressure may be overstated. According to Gunaratna, the LTTE continue to raise funds from the Tamil diaspora around the world, although any explicit coercion has been replaced by implicit threats. The majority of the 500,000-strong Sri Lankan Tamil community abroad backs peace. But some?among them generous donors?oppose it, fearing a settlement would threaten their ability to win permission to settle abroad as embattled refugees from a war-torn land. "There are many who arrived in recent...
Present day racism is scarier than its predecessor. Implicit attitudes as opposed to blatant cross burning makes it extremely difficult to distinguish between friend...
...Each time, the government of the day gave implicit help to the lynch mobs by providing breathing space for hatred. Despite sufficient evidence of the coming firestorm, the police were kept immobile before and mute during the public assault, mayhem and murder. The guardians of the law handed selected areas for an average of two days to the lawless of their preference, while some group of Indians paid an indescribable price in blood. For these mass lynchings have an almost celebratory air. Mobs roam the street as if on some gruesome holiday during which they have been released from...
...professor should personally evaluate students’ papers to ensure that the TF held students to the same high standards as other TFs. This professorial oversight creates the disincentive for TFs to cave in to student demands for higher grades or for TFs to give higher grades in implicit exchange for better CUE ratings. If TFs know their grades will be closely scrutinized, then they will adhere to the prescribed standards...
Soon after his arrival, he instituted two informal committees, one on financial resources and one on educational policy, that would engineer dramatic changes—including substantial reductions in concentration requirements and doubling the number of freshman seminars—without any technical authority. Knowles’ implicit backing of the committees enabled sizable policy changes to be implemented expeditiously, without bogging down in debate at Faculty meetings...