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...It’s beyond argument and counterargument. It’s theologically based.” Outside the Loeb, a handful of protesters held signs denouncing Tutu and accused him of being “an imperialist.” Tutu is here for the two-day conference of Weatherhead Center alumni fellows called “The Search for Solutions to the World’s Intractable Problems.” “Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu’s opposition to apartheid, his commitment to stopping AIDS and treating its victims, his advocacy of inclusiveness...
...officials Monday, but failed to see any real changes after a week of protest. The protesters want Columbia to diversify its Core Curriculum and improve ethnic studies and multicultural resources, according to a report by the Columbia Spectator. Finally, starting today, students at UMass-Amherst plan to stage a two-day strike to push for decreased student fees and a relaxation of aggressive police patrols of dormitories. The university’s administration met with strikers on Tuesday, but “agreed to disagree,” said spokesman Ed F. Blaguszewski. “It is very unlikely...
...this rate, the German Prime Minister, Angela Merkel should be showing up with a long wish list when she lands in Crawford, Texas, on Friday, for a two-day summit with Bush. The President embarrassed his German counterpart in her own backyard last June when he refused to sign up for her plan to reduce global warming at the G-8 summit in Heiligendamm. Signs of a U.S. effort to make nice could come with some new concession on the environment or on the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and broader issues of human rights...
...unable to do. “[I was] a little bit slower than the top two boats,” Kovacs said of his performance on Sunday. “I could hang with them, but not necessarily beat them.” Watson placed ninth in the women’s championships after seventeen races and a top-three finish in her last two events. Ending the regatta with 139 points, Watson registered four top-five finishes over the two-day contest. —Staff writer Alexandra J. Mihalek can be reached at amihalek@fas.harvard.edu...
...Thirty people died in shootouts with police in the Mathare slum in Nairobi during a two-day operation in early June that was later condemned by Amnesty International. In all, officers said they had rounded up 4,000 suspects. Kiai said he now had evidence that 454 bodies had been abandoned in Nairobi's mortuaries. Others, he said, were found in towns further afield or simply dumped in forests. Eric Kiraithe, spokesman for Kenya Police, denied the allegations. He claimed many of the bodies were victims of traffic accidents or gang warfare. "Who was there to say the victims were...