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...said during the 1965 sentencing of an accused 19 year-old drug dealer, “should screen out those they let in.”Dana L. Farnsworth, then-director of University Health Services, reacted in The Crimson. “Perhaps a few more people than usual are experimenting with drugs.”The University responded to criticism by sending drug users to psychiatrists or putting them on probation. But then-Dean of the College John U. Monro ’34 struck a harder line. “In sum,” The Crimson reported...
Haiti's pre-Carnival bands were out with their usual fanfare on Sunday night, but by Monday morning the crowds were back on the street in a different mood. The news that the latest electoral results showed that front-runner Rene Preval's lead had dropped slightly below the 50 percent needed to avoid a runoff was greeted with barricades of burning tires that shut down the city, as his supporters demanded that electoral officials certify that Preval was the undisputed winner. Even members of the provisional electoral council and some independent observers questioned the tabulation procedure, fueling the anger...
...responded to the initial protests by accusing Preval of using the same tactics as the former ally from whom he has tried to distance himself, Jean Bertrand Aristide. Two years ago, armed Aristide supporters violently shut down the capital when they felt his presidency was being threatened. "Business as usual," was how the new street protests were described by lawyer Carol Chalmers, a close associate of presidential hopeful Leslie Manigat, who is running a distant second to Preval at just under 12 percent. Another presidential candidate, Charles Henri Baker, echoed the same war cry, and vowed to do whatever...
...because the more important and less understood object of study is not American extremism but Islamic extremism, and because we live in a post-colonial age when independence has supposedly brought free agency to historical actors around the world. Yet, you wouldn’t know that from your usual Harvard posterboard, which echoes the wonks of the academic left in attributing rioting, extremism, and very nearly all beliefs and political actions of Muslims to American (or, in this instance, Danish) behavior. This meaning behind the silence at Harvard has been given voice by politicians around the world, as they...
...strategy he had worked out with the ranch owner, Katharine Armstrong, in which she was to call a trusted reporter at the local paper, the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, to disclose the news. Caller-Times Managing Editor Shane Fitzgerald told TIME that the newspaper had done its usual nightly checks with local law enforcement agents on Saturday and had been told nothing was going on. Armstrong started leaving messages at the newspaper at 8 a.m., reached a reporter by 11 a.m. and the newspaper posted its story on the Web at 1:48 p.m. local time Sunday...