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...Crimson editorialist Andrew D. Fine ’09 likewise sounded the tocsin. Pleading before the UC not to pass their aforementioned resolution, Fine—as paraphrased in The Crimson—deemed it incumbent upon the University to “pressure” the military into ending DADT, and thus imperative to exclude the commissioning ceremony from campus...
...centuries, the Alevi response to persecution has been to worship in secret, while trying to pass as Sunni. Amid the political liberalization that has accompanied Turkey's efforts to join the European Union, however, many Alevi have begun emerging from the shadows. At the Karacaahmet Sultan shrine on the Asian side of the Bosphorus, the cemevi runs entirely on donations to the tune of $159,000 a year. Volunteers teach traditional Alevi music and dance, while the group's pro bono lawyers fight for Alevi rights in court. Last year, an Alevi parent, angered by compulsory religion classes his teenage...
...walked by with my press pass, a cadet volunteered his take on the weekend...
...Last month, when Almaraz and aides tried to pass through Larsen's Santa Cruz property - they insist it was the only route by which to reach to nearby indigenous Guarani residents to whom they were delivering land deeds - witnesses say the caravan was fired on by Larsen and his son Duston, 29. The incident was followed by two weeks of rancher roadblocks and violent protests that left 40 indigenous people injured...
...Autonomy is favored by more than the two-thirds of Santa Cruz voters needed to pass, according to polls, and Governor Ruben Costas, a staunch Morales opponent, said recently that it would "give birth to a new republic." He has since denied that he implied a separatist movement for Santa Cruz or the other three eastern states: Beni, Pando and Tarija, which will hold similar votes this summer. But critics say the remark betrayed an underlying goal of the country's eastern elite: gaining total control over Bolivia's vast natural gas reserves and its most fertile land...