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...Canada has a long and proud history of intellectual leaders, and Ignatieff is no exception,” said Xiaodi Wu ’09, the so-called prime minister of the Harvard Canadian Club. “It’s a good step forward for Canadian politics. But I think it is too soon to tell what kind of impact he will have...
...fire employees in order to cut costs. Instead, department chairs were notified earlier this week that non-union salaries will be frozen and most searches for tenure-track and tenured faculty will be put on hold. While the salary freeze may be unfortunate, it is a fair and logical step given the dire economic situation and the need to cut about $100 million from the FAS operating budget. [CORRECTION APPENDED...
...activism in the African-American community. In the 1980s, he loudly opposed South Africa's apartheid regime, spending his 21st birthday in a Washington jail cell after participating in protests outside South Africa's embassy in that city. By 1995, he was ready for his first major step in national politics. He was immediately successful. He won his first bid for a congressional seat and became the Representative of the largely black Second Congressional District of Illinois, which includes parts of Chicago's South Side. He quickly began forming alliances with a range of Chicago and Illinois pols. When...
...Holbrooke is a great negotiator, but he's also a great intimidator, and the first step toward resolving the war in Afghanistan is to lay down the law in both Islamabad and Kabul. The message should be the same in both cases: The unsupervised splurge of American aid is over. The Pakistanis will have to stop giving tacit support and protection to terrorists, especially the Afghan Taliban. The Karzai government will have to end its corruption and close down the drug trade. There are plenty of other reforms necessary - the international humanitarian effort is a shabby, self-righteous mess; some...
...hunger stalks the land - is all part of a fiendish Western plot to justify an invasion of Zimbabwe. To be sure, the idea of overthrowing Mugabe has growing support. French President Nicolas Sarkozy, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and U.S. President George Bush have all called for Mugabe to step down. Nobel laureate Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, Archbishop of York Dr. John Sentamu and Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga are among those who have gone even further, advocating international military intervention to overthrow Mugabe. They argue that the U.N. has a responsibility to take action under the Responsibility to Protect...