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...wear and post their anti-war voice to show decision-makers our dissent,” said Kaveri Rajaraman, a third-year graduate student of molecular and cellular biology and an HIPJ member. Amar Abbas, a German visitor whose family lives in Iraq, said he appreciated the anti-war protests. “It’s really exciting to see students demonstrating after four years of craziness in Iraq,” he said. Karen Carmean and Doane Perry, a Cantabrigian couple, joined in the protest. Carmean pointed to her sign, which read, “QUAKERS FOR PEACE...
...rhetoric, along with Iran's meddling in Iraq and pursuit of nuclear technology, that has brought Tehran closer to a confrontation with the U.S. than at any time in the past three decades. "They are saying their words," Ahmadinejad said in an interview with Time two days after the protest at Amir Kabir University, "and I am saying mine...
SOMERVILLE—Eliot University Professor Lawrence H. Summers critized higher education practices in a lecture at Tufts University yesterday that drew extensively on his experiences as Harvard president. The speech, including some of his first public remarks on education since his resignation last year, came amidst protest and promised boycott from some Tufts faculty members, who objected to comments he made in 2005 about the intrinsic aptitude of women in math and science. Summers led with jokes that brought laughter from the audience of Tufts students and professors. He wryly said his view of academia before his Harvard presidency...
...Lawyers in cities around Pakistan responded by boycotting court proceedings, and held mass rallies to protest Chaudhry's treatment. Newspapers report that police have taken to searching cars for black suits - surefire proof that the owner is a lawyer and may be up to no good. When the chief justice refused to use an official car sent to take him to a Supreme Court hearing earlier this week and tried to walk to court instead, police forced him into a vehicle as supporters chanted, "Go Musharraf...
...controversial speaker accused of furthering malicious ideas is coming to campus, and students and faculty have vowed to protest and boycott the speech. Others on campus preach the need for tolerance of speakers who put forward opposing viewpoints regardless of their extremity. Meanwhile, the administration plans to go forward with the speech as planned. Alhough this may sound like a description of former Iranian President Mohammed Khatami’s address at Harvard last September, it actually applies to the reception that former University President Lawrence H. Summers will likely receive tonight just up the road at Tufts University. When...