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...balloting that was widely considered free and competitive. Bangladesh, which had also been under military rule, experienced an improvement in its political right rating due to successful balloting conducted under reformed electoral laws...Malaysia showed notable progress thanks to expanded opportunities for the political opposition, fewer restrictions on public protest, and greater pluralism in the media...
...posted on the Registrar’s Web site. Two-thousand students have exams on Jan. 20, some of whom were planning on attending the inauguration in Washington, D.C. Jason Y. Shah ’11 and Tanuj D. Parikh ’09 created a petition to protest the administration of exams on inauguration day, with the goal of allowing all students taking exams on the 20th an excused make-up option. The petition gathered 600 signatures. Parikh, who has his Government 1368: “The Politics of American Education” exam on the morning...
...diverse crowd remained subdued but focused for the half-hour-long gathering, despite a brief interruption from two students who stood silently in the back of the crowd holding signs in protest. One read, “Israelis against the War” and the other, “765 Palestinians Dead/10 Israelis.” A brief tussle ensued when another student attempted to knock down the signs...
...Hajdas and about 50 other parishioners in this northern Berkshires town seized the church of St. Stanislaus Kostka to protest plans to shut it down. They say they'll keep their vigil until their appeal is heard by the Vatican--or until the Diocese of Springfield, which oversees Adams' churches, has them forcibly removed...
...friend of theirs. He gave Israelis all they wanted but didn't rein them in when they needed it. Israel eventually will have to pull back to the 1967 borders and dismantle many of the settlements on the Palestinian side, no matter how loudly its ultra-religious parties protest. Only then will the Palestinians and the other Arab states agree to a durable peace. It's as simple as that. But for 60 years, in the Holy Land, there has been a yawning gap between what was simple and what could be achieved...