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Among those reportedly taken into custody was Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, who India believes was in charge of training LeT operatives for suicide attacks. Indian authorities refused to comment on the reports, saying they were awaiting official confirmation from the Pakistani government that they had acted on a diplomatic protest served on the Pakistan High Commissioner to New Delhi on Dec. 2, seeking "strong action" against those responsible for the Mumbai attacks. (See pictures of Mumbai's days of terror...
...students in Government 1540: “The American Presidency,” final exam scheduling, rather than just ticket scarcity, was set to be a major hindrance in their ability to watch the 2009 Presidential inauguration. After the ironic scheduling conflict became the subject of student protest, course Professor Roger Porter announced yesterday that the exam had been moved from January 20 to January 13. Elyse M. Schoenfeld ’09, a student in the class, said that she met with Porter two weeks ago to discuss the conflict between the exam date and the inauguration. According...
...learned the touchstones of the Civil Rights struggle throughout middle school and high school history classes: the steadfastness of Rosa Parks, the oratory of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the many indignities that spurred non-violent protests throughout the South. But can anyone remember what was happening in the North at the same time? University of Pennsylvania professor Thomas J. Sugrue attempts to remedy this gap in our historical memory with his new book, “Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North.”Sugrue’s book is something...
...cover all those tactics and techniques, that's something I think he'd look to his national security advisers for," said Brennan in an August interview with Congressional Quarterly. Last week Brennan withdrew his name from consideration for the top job at the CIA, after an outcry of protest from Obama's liberal supporters. Though he worked at the CIA early in the Bush Administration, Brennan has long maintained that he objected to the harshest interrogation policies pushed by the White House...
...It’s not like we have much of a choice, I want to protest. But this isn’t the right response. I’m too old to wish, like a child, that a broken thing could be made whole...