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...first in its failure to pass direct elections, and now its perplexing efforts to maintain a third committee when there’s no reason for it to be maintained. We remind students that they have the right to opt-out of the UC term-bill fee in protest of the recent UC delinquency. If our elected government continues to fail in its efforts to reform, then it might be more compelled to do so with its financial solvency at stake. We are sincerely dismayed that UC members have become this mired in a medley of self-serving and myopic...
...Muslim Brotherhood officials, who organized the protest along with secular activists, told TIME at least 350 of their supporters had been arrested in three separate demonstrations in Cairo Thursday. They join scores of other activists detained in the last several weeks at similar rallies. For their part, judges Mekky and Bastawissi refused to enter the courthouse in protest. Unable to proceed without them, the hearing has been postponed until next Thursday...
...scene of the protest, human rights activist Hossam Bahgat watched as police played a brutal cat-and-mouse game with remaining demonstrators, chasing them down alleyways and cornering them against barricades. "I saw some of them being carried into police trucks while their noses and mouths were bleeding," said Bahgat, the director of the Egyptian Initiative for Human Rights. "As soon as the judges arrived to offer the reform movement the moral leadership it direly needed, the government realized how dangerous these government demonstrations could be," Bahgat said...
...This has been a threefold victory for the Mexican government. First, it eliminates the financial concern of how to care for these people. Second, the citizens who would be the angriest about the government's inadequacies keep leaving the country. Those who would vote, protest, stage walkouts, and revolt-instead keep voting with their feet. Which in turn protects The Powers That Be. And third, as a reward for watching entire communities empty out, they receive a huge influx of cash...
...lost on Kwong. “Why is it tyranny of the minority?” “Jeff, I’m done answering your question,” Haddock replied.And one-third of the UC was done as well, storming out of Emerson 105 in protest, hoping bring the meeting to a halt. If only the UC had enough mercy for itself to let it all end there. Their departure was marked by hisses and “Shame! Shame!” from the council members that remained in the room. And the defectors returned. Sadly...