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Mugabe justified his actions with an aggressive propaganda campaign, branding white farmers as neo-colonialists, blaming them for food shortages, and labeling all opposition as sympathetic to white power. Somewhat more subtly, he claimed that the nation must “act as one” to attack its mushrooming problems, and stop “turning against itself through terrorism.” By this he meant that dissent of any kind was tantamount to treason...
...even without Congress’s somewhat bizarre and heavy-handed creation of an artificial penalty for turning away recruiters, the University’s ambivalence towards the military carries a number of more subtle costs...
...years, as his masks have become some of the most widely recognized works of new Canadian art, Jungen, 35, has become pretty visible too. The Vancouver survey, organized by the VAG's chief curator, Daina Augaitis, will move in April to the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art. A somewhat smaller version of the show has already appeared at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City. And in May a selection of Jungen's work opens at the Tate Modern in London...
...dean will assume responsibility for the recently completed HCCR, the Faculty’s votes on it should be delayed in the interim. The Faculty is scheduled to hold the final vote on the three-year project this spring, although Kirby’s departure does put its future somewhat in doubt. Thus, despite the possible advantages of forging ahead with much needed curricular changes, we believe that binding a new dean to Kirby’s program—one that has sustained criticism from within the University and from national media—would have negative effects...
...images conveyed disrespect against him and against Islam as a religion, Arab ambassadors in Copenhagen quickly demanded meetings last autumn with Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen. He demurred, making the bulletproof argument that government doesn't control the free press. But it has broken out with new and somewhat mysterious force since a Norwegian periodical reprinted the cartoons on January 10. Arab Ambassadors were recalled from Denmark, protest marches were under way in Kuwait and Damascus, and armed gunmen shut down the office of the European Union in Gaza City. Boycotts of Danish products spread throughout the Middle East...