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...protests in Lhasa in the last week have been the most violent in the last forty years, but are hardly a new phenomenon. In fact, they started during the anniversary of a failed rebellion on March 10th, 1959. Ten years before that, and just months after securing control of continental China after a long civil war, the aptly named Maoist People’s Liberation Army (PLA) invaded Tibet. The New York Times and other international media outlets covered the desperate radio broadcasts of a “shocked” Dalai Lama, Tibet’s spiritual and political...
...record and advocate for dialogue with the Dalai Lama. On Tuesday afternoon, the French foreign minister and human rights advocate Bernard Kouchner said that Reporters Without Borders’ idea of boycotting the Olympics opening ceremony should be considered at the next European Union foreign ministers gathering, scheduled for March 28th. Considering the overwhelming power of the Chinese in both economic and military terms, international pressure in the context of the Olympics remains the Tibetans’ best hope, and all Western democracies should jump on this opportunity...
...College’s committee charged with examining the procedures of the Administrative Board. Despite the UC’s efforts to have a say in the selection process, the College ultimately rejected the idea of having any undergraduate other than Sundquist serve. At a UC meeting on March 10, Sundquist told the Council that he had been offered a seat on the committee. After two rounds of UC discussion and a vote, Sundquist accepted the committee’s offer Tuesday morning. “We’re very pleased that they have decided to put a student...
...Shooting Britney,” which attempts to break down our national obsession with celebrity gossip. It traces the “evolution of Hollywood paparazzi from a marginal nuisance to one of the most powerful and lucrative forces driving the American news-gathering industry... to March 2002, when a women’s magazine editor named Bonnie Fuller took over a Wenner Media property called Us Weekly...
...Both Congress and the media have faced widespread criticism for failing to ask hard questions during the march to war—especially about weapons intelligence that later proved to be “dead wrong,” according to the findings of a commission appointed by President Bush...