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From the Bush administration’s insistence that this is a time of war, despite the absence of a Congressional declaration, from which the power to conduct military tribunals is apparently derived to its outright abandonment of Attorney General John Ashcroft’s promise to stop racial profiling it is clear that the Bush administration is willing to distort reality to perpetuate its narrow political vision. A vision of exclusivity, corporate welfare and stifled dissent that is wholly antithetical to this nation’s spirit...
...faculty has moved from a posture of outright opposition to a posture of recognizing the reality of the problem the University faces and now seriously looking at all the options,” said Weld Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson...
...Since September 11, there have been a lot of stories in the Western press posing the question "Why do they hate us?" and bemoaning the fact (sometimes with good cause) that madrasahs (religious schools) in the Muslim world often teach their young students stereotypes, half-truths and outright falsehoods about the West. Unfortunately, according to a few tomes currently on the shelves, many people in the West are also shamefully undereducated or just plain miseducated about the history of countries in the Middle East and, in many cases, about history in general. Michael Parenti, in his book "History as Mystery...
...were really up for this game,” Rose said. “Between having lost the last three years to Yale, trying to win an Ivy League Championship outright and keeping our record unblemished, that’s just about all the motivation we needed as seniors...
...loss ended Harvard’s chance for its first outright Ivy title since 1996, and leaves the Crimson ( 10-4-1, 5-2 Ivy) “on the bubble” for one of the NCAA Tournament bids that will be handed out today. Princeton, the other co-champ in the Ivy League, receives the automatic bid on the strength of a head-to-head win this season over Brown. Either a tie or a win would have clinched an automatic bid for the Crimson in addition to the League title...