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...unbending nature placed him at odds with the younger and more pragmatic generation of Hizballah officials who gained prominence at the end of the Lebanese civil war in 1990. And he crossed swords with the Lebanese government in 1997 when he launched a campaign of civil disobedience to protest official neglect of the impoverished Bekaa. Toufeili insists he does not dwell on the past, and spends most of his time studying weighty tracts on Islamic jurisprudence. Yet one cannot help wondering what dark secrets swirl in his memory when he gazes out of his window at the imposing walls...
Several members of the Undergraduate Council (UC) took to their feet in protest last night after an incident of illegitimate voting, which led to a motion for censure, the likes of which UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 said he had “never seen...
...country's Stalinist government. But the weirdest and most influential role the vocal Marxist played was as the inspiration and lyricist for a seminal Czech underground rock band, the Plastic People of the Universe. The arrest of the Plastics at a 1976 rally sparked Charter 77, the Havel-led protest movement that in 1989 toppled the communist regime...
...training with fellow cadets. In fact, all of Sinnott’s ROTC training is conducted off of Harvard’s campus. Harvard has had a rocky history with ROTC, beginning in 1969 when the organization was first removed from campus after students stormed University Hall in protest to the military presence. Decades later, the University severed ties with ROTC because of the military’s exclusionary “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. In light of the fact that the military is conspicuously missing from Harvard?...
...limit how and where American troops operate in Shi'ite areas. When they feel the heat from the Americans, they are able to make life difficult for al-Maliki by precipitating political crises - as they did this week by announcing the withdrawal of their ministers from his cabinet in protest at his failure to demand a timetable for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq...