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...need to investigate the matter further. No immediate urgency was either present or asserted at the time that the Faculty parliamentarian authorized the motion and the faculty voted to table the motion. The fervor of their conviction also blinded 74 Ph.D.s to the fact that they were proving my point??that the Israel-Palestine debate has been subject to a unique degree of censorship on campus, and this at a time when the entire world most needs for the matter to be discussed with civility, balance, and reason...
...shape an entire Peace Conference and might, arguably, be charged with its failure. On the last page of the book, Andelman notes that we have learned from history that the best of intentions can fail: “We have only to look to the past to prove this point??provided we look far enough back to see where our troubles began.” This is a central premise of the book, the idea that if we look back to the diplomatic arrangements initiated at Versailles in 1919, we will find the roots of the conflicts which...
...clear contrast to their subjection to the Austro-Hungarian hegemony this time last century, the Balkans today are moving forward democratically precisely because of the promise of EU accession. Just yesterday, EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn pointed out the “turning point?? in Serbian policy by allowing alleged war criminals from the 90s, Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic, to be tried for crimes against humanity in The Hague. The EU’s stance on Kosovo’s independence is as clear as their insistence on prosecuting war criminals...
Monday’s editorial “Pondering Porn” misses the point??by a long shot. Tangled up in its claims and false analogies, it fails to provide nuance in its central criticism (after calling for more nuance from Catherine MacKinnon). Crucially, it fails to even mention the staggering levels of rape and male violence against women—MacKinnon’s “exhibit A” against pornography...
...busy times.” Vamoose is charging higher prices than its competitors’ online specials. A one-way Boston-New York ticket costs $15 on greyhound.com and luckystarbus.com. But for some students, the free WiFi offered on some Vamoose buses may prove to be another key selling point??even though the company’s Web site cautions that not all its buses have plug-in power outlets. “With wireless, traveling would be so much more efficient, knowing I’ll have a seat and can spend the 4 hour ride productively...