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With midterm elections approaching, no politician wanted to go home and explain to voters why a company controlled by the government of Dubai was taking over operations at six U.S. ports-without so much as a meow of protest from Congress. As it turns out, that won't be necessary. Dubai Ports World, the firm at the center of the controversy, announced today that it would give up its bid to manage U.S. ports, agreeing to transfer the contracts to a ?U.S. entity...
...origin. Those tensions do not bode well for world peace in the next generation, let alone in the immediate future. Sometimes I wonder whether humans really need religions. Perhaps what we need is a humane education. Ibrahim Musa Kuala Lumpur I am very frustrated with the way Pakistanis are protesting against the cartoons. No one has a right to burn someone else's property. Some people are urging the boycott of all products from European countries. Do any of those means of protest actually accomplish anything? The real solution would be not boycotting products but producing them in the first...
...access?’” Clement responded, “I think that would be.”Clement said the law schools “could put signs on the bulletin board next to the door, they could engage in speech, they could help organize student protests.” And Roberts cited Clement’s concession in the court’s ruling.Kagan wrote in her message that she hopes “many members of the Harvard Law School community will accept the Court’s invitation to express their views clearly...
...their own (somewhat ponderous) philosophies of sampling and breakbeats. Most hip-hop scholars in the academy have focused more on hip-hop’s intersection with reconstituted discourses of race and gender, and less on the form itself. Witness the inclusion of Tupac in a Harvard course on protest literature, or the schizophrenia of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s “Hip Hop” course, whose syllabus is fraught with jarring references to “commodity fetishization”, “hedz”, and “dookie chains...
...would be naive to think that India has shed its Hindu chauvinism overnight. After the latest attack, former BJP Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani announced he would he embarking on a "yatra," a cross between a march and a pilgrimage, to protest the pandering to "minorities" - meaning Muslims - that he said had led to the bombings. Moreover, as relations with Pakistan warm, India's nationalist hawks are all too eager to find another "anti-India" bogeyman in the rising Islamic fundamentalist movement in India's its eastern neighbor, Bangladesh. Nor is the absence of a riot much to celebrate...