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...power in 1999 on the promise that he alone could bring peace to Chechnya. To that end, he compelled Chechens to vote on a political solution to the conflict last March, an exercise widely dismissed as a sham because it was conducted by force. Putin did pull a token number of troops out of Chechnya and promised that he would put an end to the routine abductions and executions of Chechen civilians. Yet more than 200 people have been abducted since the vote took place. "We know for a fact that the reprisals have grown much worse after the referendum...
...long chafed at British domination over his country's oil. The Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., partly owned by the British government and a predecessor of today's British Petroleum, held the concession for all of Iran. It set production rates and prices as well as Iran's token share of the proceeds. Mossadegh sought a fifty-fifty sharing agreement, which was then becoming the common arrangement between other oil-producing countries and U.S. companies. The British refused. In 1951 Mossadegh successfully pushed to nationalize Anglo-Iranian, became Iran's Premier and established the National Iranian...
...same token, the Day of Silence originally arose out of an urgency totally alien to the BGLTSA’s rehearsal of that event. The Day of Silence takes its cue from ACT UP’s die-ins—which themselves were meant to illustrate the group’s brutal slogan, Silence=Death. When the Day of Silence came to college campuses in 1996, it sought to literalize the fatal silence surrounding the victims of hate crimes. In another decontextualization of a once-potent political action, the BGLTSA’s event re-defined silence...
...administration dismisses criticisms as partisan, but they miss the point. Had KSG’s administration wished to invite a token Republican to prove its liberal reputation is undeserved, it could have selected someone who truly exemplifies a lifetime in service or outstanding leadership. People like Sen. John McCain, Loeb Professor Emeritus Archibald Cox, former senator and former KSG professor Alan K. Simpson or Sen. Olympia Snowe, who delivered a past KSG commencement address, all would have been decent conservative choices...
...Night are all Lamb’s own, left over from an art class he teaches each summer in Vermont. In fact, the materials he uses give clues to his pre-Harvard life: one type of paper he uses for lamps is a thick Japanese rice paper, a token of the months he spent at an Japanese monastery; the tea that he offers his Art Night visitors is a reminder of his five years in England, where he attended Summerhill school, one of the most well-known non-traditional boarding schools in the world. But other aspects of Lamb?...