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...questioning the intentions of the concert organizers. At the back of the crowd, a few students held signs reading, “No US War in Iran,” and began shouting during the speech made by Atri, the Iranian student activist. One attendee not involved in the protest expressed concerns that the concert ignored the complexities of the Iran issue. “It seems like this event is brushing over campus opinion, trying to gloss over disagreement in a very similar way to discussion before Iraq,”said Noah Hertz-Bunzl...
...forever. A poll last week found that more than two-thirds of the population - and more than 80% of the young people the law aims to help - want the government to rescind the law's terms. For some, opposition justified violence. At the Sorbonne, a minority of protesters hurled anything they could tear loose - umbrella stanchions, metal barricades, café chairs - at the shields of riot police, who replied with water cannon and tear gas. "The bourgeoisie to the gulag!" read a wall scrawl. Most of last week's demonstrators deplored the violence - but not the passion that underlaid...
Privacy advocates say that even with those safeguards, consumers should have a choice about how their information is used. Even anonymous data could, for example, reveal where a large group of people is headed for a protest. "These programs start out with the best intentions, but they expand," says Barry Steinhardt, director of the Technology and Liberty Program at the A.C.L.U. Some responsibility, of course, rests with the individual. Since his data were revealed, Clark took his mobile number off his business cards. Wireless carriers also recommend that customers avoid giving out their mobile numbers online. But Clark insists that...
...year in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison. He was thrown in jail for publishing articles implicating the regime in a series of murders, but his resolute defiance has made him the most famous political prisoner in the country. Last May, Ganji went on a hunger strike to protest his incarceration. In deteriorating health, he released a defiant statement: “No one should be imprisoned—not even for a second—for expressing an opinion.”Journalists are not the only ones who suffer under today’s Iranian government. Women...
...students raised a black flag of rebellion and burned University President Josiah Quincy, Class of 1790, in effigy. And in 1969, University President Nathan M. Pusey ’28 famously called in Boston and Cambridge police to forcibly remove students that had taken over University Hall to protest ROTC recruitment on campus...