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...Turkey's Place in Europe Re Katinka Barysch's article "Europe's Turkey Problem" [April 13]. Once more, we are told that the E.U. simply has to accept Turkey as a member country. Not doing so, says the article, "would be a mistake of historic proportions." Translation: America wants to accommodate Turkey and at the same time kill off any possibility of Europe making independent decisions. The U.S. thinks it is entitled to tell us which countries we should include, regardless of how alien, oppressive or hostile to genuine secular values they are. Öjevind Laang, LUND, SWEDEN...
...Rick Calixto, director of the Harvard University Trademark Program, wrote in an e-mail in February that Harvard would consider renewing its contract with Russell if the company followed recommendations of the Fair Labor Association (FLA), a global workers’ rights group of which Harvard is a member. Alyssa M. Aguilera ’08-’09, a SLAM member, said that SLAM is concerned that the investigation leading to the FLA’s recommendations were flawed. In response, SLAM brought Salma Mirza, a member of the national staff of the United Students Against Sweatshops...
...much more desperate - or dangerous - than a hunger strike. From college campuses in the Midwest to the oil fields of Kazahstan, the practice has become a daily, global phenomenon that has been by turns successful, gruesome, tragic and sometimes all of the above. In 1981, a 27-year-old member of the Irish Republican Army named Bobby Sands led a hunger strike at Her Majesty's Prison Maze in Belfast, where he was serving time for gun possession, and used the attention to win a seat in the British parliament. He never served his term, though; he starved to death...
...However, the result is likely to be the same. Although the European perspective has been instrumental in guiding young democracies out of the grip of authoritarianism and autarchy, this power to transform the fringe is slipping. With the prize of becoming an E.U. member seeming to move further and further out of their reach, the Balkans and Turkey - politically fragile and economically vulnerable - could reverse any reforms they've already undertaken in order to turn themselves into better E.U. candidates...
...Koka's murder on April 22 was the fifth in recent months of a member of Hungary's 600,000-strong Roma community. Hungarian police believe that a small group of killers is targeting Roma, who are also known as gypsies and remain one of the most marginalized and neglected groups in Europe. (Read: "Child Migrants on Hunger Strike...