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...from state-owned enterprises. "Cutting agricultural subsidies will be the most difficult thing China has to do for WTO," says Pu Yonghao, a senior economist at Nomura International in Hong Kong. "There are serious doubts whether they will be able to pull it off without too much social unrest...
...masters’ houses” within which ethnic studies occupied the maid’s quarters 30 years ago. Now, she said, ethnic studies is a “misunderstood and unwelcome guest” in the guest bedroom, a position gained only by dint of student unrest...
...recounted tales of student hunger strikes and sit-ins for the creation of ethnic studies departments, reminding students that Harvard had created the Afro-American Studies Department only after considerable student unrest in the 1960s...
DIED. WILL COUNTS, 70, photojournalist nominated for a Pulitzer for his coverage of the 1957 desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Ark.; of cancer; in Bloomington, Ind. Among Counts' searing pictures of the unrest was one of a white girl furiously jeering black student Elizabeth Eckford, 15. Hazel Bryan Massery, the jeerer, later apologized to Eckford. In 1997 Counts photographed the women together...
...country whose leaders profess solidarity with the U.S. but whose people--apparently some of them, anyway--commit mass murder on American soil, or sit around Riyadh coffee shops applauding those who do? Answer: an uneasy one. As it moves toward military action, the U.S. remains concerned about popular unrest in Arab and Islamic states around the world, including Saudi Arabia. (It was concerned enough, in fact, that alarms went off on Saturday, when a bomb exploded outside a shop in the Saudi city of Khobar, killing two. Initial reports, however, were that the incident was unrelated to the Sept...