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It seems Soul Train isn't used to criticism. When the 32-year-old dance show was the subject of a Web petition protesting its choice of Ashanti as 2002 entertainer of the year, it railroaded the opposition. Rommel Zamora, 15, who gathered more than 25,000 electronic "signatures," was...
By outlawing Batasuna, the political arm of the separatist paramilitary organization ETA, the Spanish government may be headed for confrontation - not only with the extremists, but also with moderate nationalist majority in the Basque Country. Last Monday, the party's activities were suspended by Judge Baltasar Garzon, whose order was...
Carrasco wrote that he didn’t think a controversial stance Graham took earlier this year, as one of two House Masters to sign a petition urging the University to divest from Israel in protest of it’s policies toward Palestinians, would cause him many problems at...
Last week European opposition to an assault on Iraq was particularly shrill. In Germany, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder kicked off his re-election campaign by proclaiming in a speech in Hanover that "under my leadership, this country won't participate in any adventures [against Iraq]." And in Britain, everyone...
Contrary to the beliefs of many U.S. observers, this resistance is not due to "Eurowimp" syndrome but to the strongly held belief that any conflict must be just. "I supported the war with Iraq over Kuwait," says Richard Harries, the Anglican Bishop of Oxford, who signed the Pax Christi petition...