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We are sitting in a Starbucks coffee shop in the toniest neighborhood in Shanghai, around the corner from the Louis Vuitton store, and Wang Ling is getting steamed up over being evicted from her home. "They're liars," she says, pulling out official documents. "They're not going according to...
The story of Elizabeth Odunsi and Iyabo Nwanze begins like the grim familiar tale of illegal immigrants anywhere. Fleeing religious violence, the two mothers followed a path taken by thousands of other Nigerians, and in 2001 sought refuge in Ireland with their six children. They lived on government rations in...
Al-Qahtani's resilience under pressure in the fall of 2002 led top officials at Gitmo to petition Washington for more muscular "counter resistance strategies." On Dec. 2, Rumsfeld approved 16 of 19 stronger coercive methods. Now the interrogators could use stress strategies like standing for prolonged periods, isolation for...
Within days of the Crimson report, hundreds of students and faculty members had signed an online petition at HarvardDivest.com urging University President Lawrence H. Summers “to publicly state that Harvard will not invest in any corporation that conducts business with the Sudanese government for as long as...
Last semester, two Eliot House juniors, Manav K. Bhatnagar ’06 and Benjamin B. Collins ’06, began an online petition for divestment which collected thousands of signatures from students and Faculty. Their efforts stimulated much-needed awareness of genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan...