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Also at Columbia, a College Republican complains that the university denied his group's request to protest Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad scheduled speech there. Of course, Ahmadinejad never came, so it's kind of a moot issue, but a compelling opinion piece nonetheless...
...issues that engage the hearts and minds of Harvard students. It takes no position of real weight on how much money our wealthy University offers to students or workers. It expresses only nominal support for popular causes, such as Take Back the Night.The UC can do nothing to protest against the College when it makes dubious decisions like the no-alcohol policy at this year’s Harvard-Yale tailgate, or the recent tax on donations to student groups. Meanwhile, it applauds post factum bold steps taken by the University, such as the financial aid initiative or the curricular...
...democracy in 1983, but judicial proceedings were blocked by amnesty laws that had been passed by Congress under the threat of a military uprising by disgruntled officers in 1986. By 1990, the few officers imprisoned before those amnesties took effect were freed by then President Carlos Menem, desp?te massive protest marches across Argentina. The amnesty laws that had protected human-rights abusers were finally overturned by the Supreme Court last year, paving the way for the current trials and the prospect of hundreds of former military and police officers being convicted for doing away with thousands of Argentines. Many Argentines...
Because Ban enjoys the support of all five permanent Security Council members, it is widely considered a foregone conclusion that he will be nominated as the eighth secretary-general on Oct. 9. He would then go before the U.N. General Assembly, which traditionally accepts Security Council nominees without protest...
...While the Supreme Court has clearly authorized such an approach, we didn’t think it would be the best this year,” Sorkin wrote in an e-mail yesterday. “We decided [that] a course of action, as opposed to simple protest, would have a greater impact...