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...university through the expansionist 1950s and '60s; in New York City. The Iowa-born Harvard alum created "need-blind" admissions and oversaw the near tripling of its administrative and teaching staff--including many women. He came under fire in 1969, when he called in police to oust from a campus building protesters from the radical Students for a Democratic Society. Pusey announced his retirement the next year...
...country did not insist on the freedom of association, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) might have met an untimely demise. In 1958, when Alabama officials were attempting to oust and undermine the NAACP, the U.S. Supreme Court recognized that the freedom of association was vital to their survival. Without this principle of freedom, we might not have the great progress the civil rights movement achieved to oust racism and institutional inequalities in our country...
...themselves into the middle of a civil war. For all the talk of common cause between the U.S. military and the Northern Alliance, the two would-be partners have largely marched out of sync. The air campaign has delivered a sobering message to the hodgepodge of fighters seeking to oust the Taliban: their hopes won't always mesh with the Administration's broader aims to smoke out terrorists and keep a fragile international coalition onboard while doing...
...Hardly surprising, then, that U.S. political leaders are injecting a note of urgency into efforts to oust the Taliban, even as U.S. commanders emphasize that the war will likely continue into next year. The message is mixed, but not necessarily contradictory. Even if they're driven out of Mazari al-Sharif and the capital, the Taliban are unlikely to disappear from the political-military equation. But the U.S. may be hoping over the next three weeks to alter the balance of power between the Taliban and its domestic foes, keeping its special forces poised, through the winter, if necessary...
...find him acceptable too. After dismissing past efforts to bring back the monarch, Pakistan is now inviting him to send an envoy to Islamabad to discuss the political future of Afghanistan. Once inside Afghanistan, Zahir Shah intends to call a loya jirga (gathering) of all the ethnic tribes to oust the Taliban...