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...burden of proof is skewed. Accusations of racism are totally kosher here, yet to raise a question about the nature of the incident is to open oneself up to accusations of being a racist. Worse still, administrators whose job it is to promote campus dialogue are suppressing open discussion by rushing to the same conclusions. S. Allen Counter, longtime director of the Harvard Foundation, compared the incident to Apartheid South Africa. Harvard, according to Counter, is "clearly a racist community, in which police are allowed to use South African apartheid techniques to harass our students." Perhaps Counter needs a history...
...relief group in 1971, and used the diplomacy skills he learned in humanitarian crises to launch a political career. Socialist opponents have called Sarkozy's recruitment of Kouchner a ploy to co-opt and thus weaken the left ahead of June legislative elections. Supporters counter that the pick is proof of Sarkozy's commitment to seek public and political consensus as he modernizes France...
...something not typically French about the virtues promoted by Sarkozy. The many thousands of French expatriates working in America's biggest banks and corporations, or running their own businesses in its larger cities - and the hundreds of thousands more doing the same across Europe and Asia - are eloquent proof that they are indeed very French qualities. But those qualities have been discouraged and suppressed by France's economic and social paralysis...
Gawlik also mentioned Yale and Brown’s wins over Princeton as proof that the competition at Worcester next week would be tough. But he remained optimistic about the Crimson’s chances...
...Where's Everybody Going? While the mass departure of French citizens from their Gallic motherland may be noteworthy and alarming, the possibility that this phenomenon is by no means unique to France was not given justice in your article [April 16]. For proof, you only need to look across the English Channel at my homeland. Despite the overwhelming attention given to the recent arrival of many immigrants, a disconcerting number of talented but disillusioned youngsters are leaving Britain. There is very little overt racial discrimination and harassment, and there are still job opportunities, but the perfect, rose-tinted perception...