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...that prediction is to prove true then much will depend on the reaction of ordinary Pakistanis. Musharraf is deeply unpopular. Hundreds of thousands of people turned out at protests in support of Chaudhry earlier this year. But it's possible that with the ousted chief justice and other anti-Musharraf judicial leaders under arrest popular resentment may not grow sufficiently hot. Another potential rallying point is former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who returned to Pakistan in October for the first time in eight years as part of a deal with Musharraf that would allow her to run in parliamentary elections...
...banned; some schools are going nut-free altogether. In some districts, like Ladue in St. Louis, Mo. - which includes about half a dozen peanut-free schools - teachers must learn how to administer an adrenaline shot known as an EpiPen. The injection counteracts anaphylactic shock, a potentially deadly allergic reaction that results in closed airways and can be triggered by mere contact with a nut-based product...
Marie F. Danziger, who directs the communications program at the Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics, and Public Policy, said the Bloomberg episode reminded her of the reaction to comments about women and science that Lawrence H. Summers made in January 2005 while he was University president...
...which students knew the group existed before this incident; because of the music played, and because of who attended the party, because I had to question whether I would be stopped in my own courtyard, and because some of my friends felt the need to emphatically justify the police reaction to me. While the incident itself may not have been racially motivated, there are undercurrents of race in the discussion, and the more we dance around them, the more we inhibit our ability to have frank conversations as one student community. In ignoring these issues, we demonstrate...
...loomed so large in Harvard’s memory that, in the decade that followed, it was known only as the Strike. This six-day student boycott of classes in April of 1969—a reaction to the administration’s brutal put-down of a University Hall sit-in—soon solidified its goals into three major points. One was the creation of an Afro-American Studies Department, an objective that was affirmed by a majority of 6,000 voters at a mass meeting in Harvard Stadium. By the end of the month, the University...