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...Joseph P. Nolan Waterbury, Connecticut, U.S. Counselor With A Conscience How refreshing it was to read the interview with human-rights lawyer Gareth Peirce [Sept. 18]. Finally, someone has the courage and insight to tell it like it is. It's both astonishing and highly depressing to see the lack of popular reaction in Western democracies to the antiterrorism-globalization steamroller. Labor protections and human rights that our forefathers fought for and, in untold cases, died for are being tossed away as a result of the hype and hysteria being propagated by governments and Big Business. The media are also...
...English concentrator, I was previously exempt from. However, none of my five English credits satisfied the advisors at the Core Office. They did not ask for any papers produced in the classes or even syllabi. Those things hardly matter, after all, when, according to their reasoning, the lack of a final exam was a mortal sin for any class wishing to fulfill a Core requirement...
Until a few days before Sunday's vote, the battle between Brazil's leading presidential candidates was marked by surprisingly good manners, few personal attacks and a lack of the down-and-dirty tactics that make elections such fun to watch. That all changed in the last few days leading up to the actual vote, and now as a result, the fight is likely to get even nastier...
...There’s already a significant achievement gap by the time that kids enter kindergarten so we’re trying to prevent the achievement gap.” The announcement of the collaboration came two days after Cambridge Public School Committee member Richard Harding complained about the lack of financial support from Harvard and MIT for Cambridge’s own achievement gap woes. “I really need to know what the hell [they] are they doing for us,” Harding asked in a committee meeting last week. But Mary Power, Harvard senior director...
...According to a fact sheet from the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, academic freedom is “limited” in Cuba, and “some fields of study, such as the social sciences, are denied to those who lack the proper revolutionary zeal and political awareness.” A March 2006 report from Amnesty International described freedom of expression in Cuba as “very restricted,” and said that 72 dissidents are currently being held as “prisoners of conscience?...