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...America’s politics and people. The newest excoriation comes from James Laxer, a Canadian political scientist and social commentator who teaches at York University. Laxer was a leader of Canada’s New Democratic Party in the 1970s and in recent years has been a staunch critic of economic globalism. His most recent book, Discovering America—published in Canada as Stalking the Elephant, in reference to Pierre Trudeau’s famous description of Canada’s relation to its behemoth neighbor—fails at every turn to offer new and insightful criticism...
...Steven Jens gets his hand on Cambridge’s helm on Election Day, he’ll head hard right. Locating himself between Libertarians and Republicans on the political spectrum, he stumps with a campaign of shrunken government, free development, and a staunch defense of civil liberties...
...those of you accustomed to seeing the term “ethnic cleansing” in articles about far-away places, this might come as an unpleasant surprise to you. Last Thursday, a staunch proponent of ethnic cleansing spoke to a packed auditorium in Boylston Hall, as a guest of one of Harvard’s oldest student groups. Amidst cheers and laughter from her adoring fans from the Harvard Republican Club (HRC), syndicated columnist Ann Coulter spewed her hateful rhetoric, and left a permanent scar on a campus known for tolerance...
...Most startling was the premature retirement of trusted friend Lieut. General Mahmoud Ahmad, chief of the formidable Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, widely regarded as the country's invisible government. As a staunch patron of pro-Taliban policies, Ahmad is thought to have opposed Pakistan's new alliance with the U.S. Musharraf had reason to fear that segments of the ISI might thwart promised cooperation with U.S. intelligence. And it is said that Musharraf hit the roof when an ISI-linked jihad group devoted to wresting Muslim Kashmir from Indian control took responsibility for a blast in the Indian city...
...eastern province of Zhejiang. Last year the Chinese government sentenced Nie to one year of labor reform for publishing an open letter demanding the release of detained dissidents. DIED. ROBERTO DE OLIVEIRA CAMPOS, 84, one of Brazil's most prominent intellectual and political figures; in S?o Paulo. A staunch supporter of free markets, Campos was a principal architect of the 1970s' "Brazilian Miracle," a program that briefly turned his country's economy, which depends mainly on exports of coffee, sugar and cocoa, into the eighth-largest in the world. DIED. HERBERT ROSS, 74, director, producer and choreographer; in New York...