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...Still a colony of France at the time, Algeria's National Liberation Front (FLN) had begun a series of bombings to oust the occupiers. Upon arriving at the Paris train station Boudiaf gets immediately harassed by gendarmes who suspect any Arab of being a terrorist. Desperately trying to stay neutral in an atmosphere that insists on polarization, he declares, "I'm on the side of boxing." But when he defeats the French champion the stadium erupts in a riot. As he rises to be European champ, things get hotter, especially when his brother joins the resistance and his girlfriend turns...
...past, the subcommittee has met in City Hall and pointedly asked university representatives not to attend. The meeting next week is the first slated to include Harvard and MIT officials and will be held on neutral ground, in the Kendall Square offices of the Biogen company...
...because I feel it also has a responsibility to examine its own role [in the conflict] through its investments,” said Faisal I. Chaudhry, a second-year Harvard Law School student who helped organize the divestment drive. “It’s not simply a neutral party...
...simply a means of appeasing anti-Castro Cuban-Americans whose votes carry weight for Bush - especially for his brother Jeb, who needs them to win a second term as Florida governor this year. Carter, at Castro's invitation, inspected the CIGB this week - and today, Castro invited any "neutral and impartial" inspector from any country to do the same...
...Officers Training Corps (ROTC) officers to approve their courses for ROTC credit is an absurd and underhanded attempt to show support for the discriminatory institution itself. The Staff’s notion that this declaration is somehow balanced—by making life easier for the cadets while remaining neutral on the ultimate status of ROTC at Harvard—ignores the crucial fact that encouraging University interaction with ROTC officials is a tacit endorsement for ROTC itself...