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...Chair Dritan Nesho ’08. “It’s an opportunity to ask ‘What does it take to build a democracy?’” Albania began its transition to democracy in 1991 after nearly 50 years of communist rule. In addition to lively conversation about the future of the new club, Friday’s event featured a screening of “The Slogans,” a movie about life in an Albanian village during the communist era. The club’s leaders also presented...
Nikolai Statkevich tried to buck the system in 2001: he ran for President of Belarus. The country calls itself democratic, but President Alexander Lukashenko, in power for 11 years, runs it like the last dictatorship in Europe and brooks no challenges to his neo-Stalinist rule. That's why Statkevich, 49, leader of the opposition Social Democratic party, found himself confined to a prison barrack in the town of Baranovichi, 120 km west of Minsk, the nation's capital. Last March, the government sentenced him to three years of forced labor for "resisting the authorities and obstructing traffic" during...
Computer graphics may rule the new KING KONG, but the first remake gripped audiences mainly via hydraulics...
...under the leadership of Thomas A. Dingman ’67, is attempting to stimulate first-year social life. This signals a welcome shot in the arm for the freshman social experience. Perhaps the simplest and most effective of Dingman’s proposals is to clarify the rules for freshman parties: they’re allowed. Merely reminding freshmen that they’re permitted to have their own get-togethers will likely encourage such gatherings; no longer will freshmen feel that their only social option at 11 p.m. on a Saturday night is to jump on the Quad...
...moving Padilla into the criminal-justice system, the Bush Administration may be able to avoid a Supreme Court review of Padilla's status as an enemy combatant, a thorny legal issue. But his attorneys note that if the court doesn't rule on the matter, other U.S. citizens could be detained indefinitely without being charged, as could Padilla again...