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...Forum president and moderator of last night’s panel, said that hip hop should not be disregarded by scholars because of its cultural significance for African Americans. “Any serious historical study of black politics and culture will note that the two will spill into each other,” he said. “Culture will influence the way blacks do politics.” However, not everyone in attendance shared Terry’s views. Tricia Rose, a professor of Africana Studies at Brown University, said that hip hop has lost its political potential...
...Nepal but for other countries. Nepal, a country of 28 million, is sandwiched between the world's rising giants, India and China, who both have cast their eye over the Himalayan nation as a buffer against the other. Any unrest in Nepal - hostilities have been suspended, not buried - could spill across into its restive borderlands, particularly Chinese Tibet and the troubled Indian state of Bihar - developments that Beijing and New Delhi would view with alarm. Nepal's Maoists, moreover, are still on the U.S. State Department's list of terror groups. They have traded their guerrilla hideouts for plush offices...
Speaking at the hearing, MMS Director Randall Luthi defended the lease sale, arguing that developing fossil fuels in the Arctic needn't hurt the polar bear - although an Interior Department study indicates there's a 33% to 51% chance of an accidental oil spill in the area. At the conclusion of the hearing, Markey introduced legislation that would force the Bush Administration to protect the polar bear before it allows further oil drilling in Alaska, setting up a showdown later this month...
Several Harvard professors said they never see Thursday’s debauchery spill over in Friday’s classes...
...like Dow Chemical were an issue for students because of their involvement with making napalm in Vietnam,” he says. And “major petroleum companies like Exxon have their environmental problems, like the Valdez incident,” he adds, referring to a massive oil spill off the coast of Alaska in 1989.But moral concerns are often short-lived.“I would have conversations with engineering students who said they would never work with [Exxon]—yet that changes two years later,” Wright-Swadel says.Kraisberg says that looking...