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...anybody by his offhanded remarks at Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday party. The entire national media had arrived en masse to cover yet another civil rights-related story in Mississippi. What has been missing from the debate about whether Lott is a mean-spirited bigot or a states' rights patriot is the gargantuan leaps forward made by the state since Thurmond announced his presidential ambitions at the 1948 Dixiecrat Convention...
Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value Elaine Scarry asked how the University planned to address the USA Patriot Act. Part of the act requires extensive disclosure of information about foreign-born scholars, including their library and e-mail records...
...would like to know what is being done about the consequences falling on some of our community members as a result of the Patriot Act,” Scarry said...
...Even the proudest patriot will admit that India's boast of being a bastion of live-and-let-live harmony has always been something of a lie. Muslim frustration at discrimination and Hindu resentment of governmental assistance to minorities explode every few years in violence. But as the March riots raged on for weeks in Gujarat, they provoked particular alarm. While human-rights groups demanded Modi be tried for genocide, Hindu political parties, cultural groups and hordes of street demonstrators celebrated him as India's great defender. From a political nobody, Modi was catapulted into the international limelight...
...presidential elections scheduled for Dec. 8. He won't win, but the result could provide an unexpected pulpit for his hardline views. "He's my heart and soul," explains Ilinka Tasic, 50, kissing Seselj's silver-haired likeness at a vegetable market overlooking the Danube. "He is a true patriot." Authoritarian politics still has an audience in Serbia. But Seselj's re-emergence reflects a more general frustration among Serbian voters with their democratically elected leadership, which, two years after Milosevic's ouster, has yet to produce the kind of economic results that many Serbs had hoped for. Seselj insists...