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Over 1,000 academics, including 21 Harvard faculty members and 16 students have signed a petition calling for greater action in protecting the freedom and accessibility of educational institutions in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip...
...South Korea's foreign allies, including the U.S. government, are bravely pretending that the impeachment drama unfolding in Seoul is unexceptional and is perhaps even proof of South Korea's "strong, vibrant democracy." Let's not kid ourselves. By voting to strip President Roh of power and leaving it to the country's Constitutional Court to determine his ultimate political fate, South Korea's National Assembly has demonstrated the frightful weakness of the country's purported democracy?and has dealt that already frail structure another grave blow from which it is not yet clear it can recover...
...Udeen, said he had been subjected to beatings and ?psychological torture? in the camp. Mending Fences? MIDDLE EAST Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon met with three U.S. envoys in Jerusalem in a flurry of diplomatic activity meant to promote his proposal for a unilateral Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank . Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, on a trip to Cairo , secured assurances that Egypt would secure its border with Gaza if Israel pulled out. Palestinian President Yasser Arafat gave guarded support to the plan, on the condition that it be carried out within...
...sheen, two people who seek moral truths are engulfed in the process. Lynch concocts an enveloping sense of foreboding, lingering his camera even as the characters have moved well beyond the scope of the frame. The film’s emotional weight seems almost secondary to unraveling its Mobius strip plot, but repeated viewings uncover a tremendous gravitas in Naomi Watt’s alternately enchanting and harrowing performance. Tickets $7.50. 7 p.m. Brattle Theatre...
...Israeli Army was a brave appeal to humanitarian standards,” Trager said. “If anything, it’s an affront to the Israeli democracy and affront to the very humanitarian means through which it is fighting Palestinian terror in the West Bank and Gaza Strip...