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Smart, bold and political, Sleater-Kinney emerged from the Pacific Northwest with roots in riot grrrl, a movement of mostly youthful feminist and queer women who defied the sexist art and music establishments to revitalize punk rock. Despite widespread acclaim and a passionate fan base, the band has remained stubbornly independent and has little of the mainstream name recognition of those who have been crowned rock’s new hope...
According to Summers’ critics, campuses should be a place for ideas and arguments to be exchanged freely. This message has been directed disproportionately at Summers. It should really go to those at Montreal’s Concordia University, whose riot on Sept. 9 ultimately got a speech by former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu canceled. Highlights included smashed windows, physical attacks on yarmulke-wearing speech attendees and the detainment of just five of the 1,000 “demonstrators...
...professors and others are really so concerned about having an open, unconstrained debate on the Middle East, where was the moral outrage at Concordia University for letting such an important political figure be violently silenced? Short of outrage, where was the press coverage? The riot in Montreal merited exactly one brief mention in the New York Times, which referred to it as a “fracas” in the last line of an article about professors who have unified in opposition to a website which seeks to identify anti-Israel bias on college campuses...
...membership in an unknown militant group calling itself Tehreek-e-Quasas, "Movement for Revenge," and saying that the attack was payback for the anti-Muslim killings in the spring. Indian leaders know well that in the complex physics of South Asian politics, the payback for this payback?another reprisal riot in Gujarat?would have jeopardized the Kashmiri election process, perhaps India's last chance to validate its rule over the region...
...some ways it is like having gone nowhere at all, aside from having to adopt a different vocabulary. Houses are Colleges, grills are butteries, bars are pubs, professors are doctors, tutorials are supervisions, and of course, pants are trousers. To top it off, even the same seventies-inspired riot-proof architecture makes an appearance...