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...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...
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...managing editor of the Salient. From the opposite end of the ideological spectrum, Alexandra Neuhaus-Follini ’03, managing editor of Perspective, gives less credit to Harvard. “I’ve found many Harvard students disappointingly apathetic. The urge to get ahead seems to mute potentially opinionated voices. Permanent residents, on the other hand, are extremely politicized on the local, state, and national levels...
...that. "It's a different world now," Indian Defense Minister George Fernandes told TIME. "Sept. 11 made the U.S. realize the damage that a couple of terrorists can cause." While fearful that New Delhi's military maneuvers would set off a new war, Washington?to avoid hypocrisy?had to mute its protest. Though feeling protective toward its new pal Musharraf, Washington pressed him to rein in the militants...