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...demonstrations taking place in Bangladesh come after eight months of repressive emergency rule, which has restricted the rights to protest and fails to respect basic due process rights,” the watchdog organization Human Rights Watch said in a report...
CORRECTION: The Oct. 26, 2007 news article "Profs Protest Tenure Interference" incorrectly stated that Palestinian intellectual Wadie Said was up for tenure at Wayne State University. In fact, Said was never on the school's faculty—he was under consideration as an outside candidate for an appointment. In addition, due to an editing error, the article gave the wrong school affiliation for Joan W. Scott. She is a professor at the Princeton, N.J.-based Institute for Advanced Study, not Princeton University...
CLARIFICATION: The Oct. 26, 2007 news article "Profs Protest Tenure Interference" did not fully explain the circumstances surrounding Law professor Alan M. Dershowitz's letter criticizing political scientist Norman G. Finkelstein's academic work. Dershowitz's criticisms of Finkelstein were sent to professors at DePaul University in response to a request from a department at the university; the letter was not unsolicited...
...legally work the streets. By continuing to serve clients without ensuring they're disease-free, the sex workers' action raises the risk to public health. It comes in response to attacks in the city of El Alto last week in which citizens burned brothels and beat sex workers in protest against legal prostitution...
...coming days, 200 college campuses across the United States will be “rocked by the biggest conservative campus protest ever”: Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week. Organized and facilitated by the David Horowitz Freedom Center and the Terrorism Awareness Project (TAP), Islamo-Fascism Awareness aims to confront the two “big lies” of the political left: “that George Bush created the war on terror and that Global Warming is a greater danger to Americans than the terrorist threat.” This movement has little value beyond being a right-wing...