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Lurie, an irreverent Demon editor, and Misono, a Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra violinist, bring an academic rather than political bent to the council race, which they criticize as fraught with overblown promises...
...border as unacceptable. It fears that a Kurdish state in northern Iraq would inflame separatist tensions among the dominant Kurdish community in southeastern Turkey. It may seem as if Turkey is acting in the interests of regional security and stability by trying to prevent fragmentation, but its fears are overblown. Organized militant Kurdish separatism in Turkey ended two years ago in 2000, when the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a group which had waged a 15-year guerilla campaign against the Turkish military, finally embraced a non-violent, non-separatist democratic agenda. Since then, Turkey has further consolidated its political...
...people to Switzerland who might never contemplate ending their own lives at home. "Tourists come at lunchtime and by the afternoon they are dead," says Dorle Vallender, a Member of Parliament. "This is not an image we want of our country and legal system." Minelli says such fears are overblown: "We are not 'recruiting' foreigners. But it would be ethically wrong for me to turn them away." Last week Vallender filed a motion in parliament asking for tougher guidelines on assisted suicide and the exclusion of foreigners from the procedure. Dignitas may be ruffling a lot of feathers...
...deeply upsetting that The Crimson editorial board has chosen to overshadow and in effect dismiss the council’s ardent efforts with overblown rhetoric and disrespect toward council members’ hard work (Editorial, “Communication Failure, Again...
...Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, quoting from a letter that will tell shareholders his succession plan after he dies "We have to sell our oil. We cannot drink it." Saleh Mansour Al Rajhy, Saudi ambassador to South Korea, arguing that fears of runaway oil prices are overblown "The average E.U. cow receives more than $2 a day in support from governments. That is more than the income of half the world's population." Julian Filochowski, director of the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development, on farm subsidies