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...Hadfield’s legislation.It wasn’t Hadfield’s first foray into campus activism. As a freshman, Hadfield led the “Swipe for Darfur” campaign, persuading College administrators to allow undergraduates to redirect their Crimson Cash dollars to support African Union peacekeepers in western Sudan. And this past fall, Hadfield and his friend Magnus Grimeland ’07 ran for UC vice president and president, respectively. “We weren’t in the UC, but we wanted to lead the College. The campaign was the best two weeks...
...contemporary variations on old themes such as those promulgated in the notorious czarist forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, in the Nazi and America First literature of the 1930s and early ’40s, and in the propaganda pamphlets of the Soviet Union.”Walt and Mearshimer explicitly reject anti-Semitism, emphasizing that the lobby is not all Jewish nor are all Jews part of the lobby. Their article claims, though, that “the core of the Lobby is comprised of American Jews who make a significant effort in their daily lives...
...Chairman, Islamic Courts Union...
...country's Islamic leaders have written a letter to the United Nations, the Arab League, the African Union, the European Union and the U.S. State Department, as well as to various European and African embassies, that aims to allay those fears. In the four-page letter obtained by TIME, signed by Sheikh Sherif Sheikh Ahmed, Chairman of the Islamic Courts Union in Mogadishu, the city's new bosses say they want to end the chaos and bloodshed in Somalia's capital, help rebuild the country and "establish a friendly relationship with the international community that is based on mutual respect...
...health clinics when no one else would. They began providing social services in the early 1990s, and by 1998 a loose collection of Islamic courts had been established and was running parts of Mogadishu. When TIME interviewed Sheikh Hussan Sheikh Mohammed Adde, then head of the Islamic Courts Union, in May 1999 he said that Somalia's Islamic movement saw its influence growing in stages. The first phase was to clear Mogadishu of "gangsters and warlords"; then the Islamic groups would open the airport and ports. "After that we take the next step," he said. "We don't want...