Word: unrested
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...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...
...taking huge risks for supporting the U.S. against the Taliban, and as a result had limited American access to Pakistani military bases. But the refugees were making a tense situation even worse. Though the U.S. had lifted economic sanctions against Pakistan and promised $50 million in U.S. aid, the unrest continued. Last week large crowds moved through the streets of Peshawar and Rawalpindi, burning effigies of Bush. "We grossly underestimate the perils to Pakistan that this represents," says Central Asian scholar S. Frederick Starr. "If you attack, you activate the Afghan fifth column in Pakistan, you activate the Pakistani radical...
...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...