Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Members of the Interfaith Forum, which was created last semester, plan to continue discussions on a monthly basis among representatives of different religious groups, according to Naomi S. Stern '97, the Forum's chair...
Arafat must control Hamas and other fundamentalist groups responsible for terror; Peres must be more stern and severe with the issue of terrorist attacks. Politicians must deal with such events differently: not for the span of a few weeks when they occur, but on a more rigorous and continual basis. These bombings have turned into a sick pattern of events--the pattern must be broken. --Yuval Segal '97 --Dalia Trachtenberg '96 Co-chairs, Harvard Students for Israel
...delivered.) Or his plea to Nigerian human-rights advocates to give strongman General Sani Abacha three more years to fulfill his long-delayed promise to return the country to civilian rule? Moses, Farrakhan explained to the Nigerians, was also a dictator, and there are times when "stern discipline" is needed--presumably including the detention without trial of hundreds of pro-democracy activists and the execution on trumped-up charges of opposition leaders like Ken Saro-Wiwa. Farrakhan also praised the government of Sudan, which has slaughtered hundreds of thousands of people in a long-running civil war, for its "wise...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: President Clinton today called Fidel Castro's regime "repressive and violent," and announced a list of sanctions designed to send a stern message to Havana. Clinton was responding to the downing of two Cessna aircraft by Cuban MiG jets last Saturday afternoon. Cuban leaders insist that the two planes, belonging to an anti-Castro organization "Brothers to the Rescue," were in Cuban airspace, and were warned to turn back. Clinton Monday unveiled a battery of punitive measures against Cuba. Included were proposals to compensate the families of the downed airmen with funds from frozen Cuban assets...
...imperative of inter-religious understanding demands that we, as students, look deeper than we are accustomed, that we not "flock" only to our own groups but join others in search of meaningful actions. --Naomi S. Stern '97 Chair Harvard-Radcliffe Interfaith Forum