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...issues stirring the most activism on campus are South Africa, Central America, the CIA, the threat of nuclear war and proposed federal budget cuts in education. Of these, South Africa has engendered the widest protest, a movement inspired by the continuing arrests of demonstrators outside the South African embassy in Washington. Among the campuses, Berkeley and Columbia, two seed-beds of '60s radicalism, are once again leading the march. At Columbia, which has $33 million invested in concerns doing business in South Africa, the blockade of Hamilton Hall has continued more than two weeks. At Berkeley, mass rallies were triggered...
...that calls for more peacekeepers on the ground in Darfur; imposes an arms embargo on all parties to the violence, including the Khartoum government; freezes the assets of, and bans travel by, individuals suspected of war crimes; and restricts offensive military flights. "We want a strong resolution with the widest possible support but which also makes a real difference on the ground for the Sudanese people," says a State Department spokesman. "We want to identify perpetrators and have them brought to justice by internationally accepted means." And therein lies a dilemma. While European nations and human-rights groups broadly support...
Today, in Iceland and Sweden, girls consistently outperform boys in math and physics (see box). In Sweden the gap is widest in the remote regions in the north. That may be because women want to move to the big cities farther south, where they would need to compete in high-tech economies, while men are focused on local hunting, fishing and forestry opportunities, says Niels Egelund, a professor of educational psychology at the Danish University of Education. The phenomenon even has a name, the Jokkmokk effect, a reference to an isolated town in Swedish Lapland...
...previous widest margin of victory for the Crimson against its in-town rival was 6-1 during the 1998-1999 season, while the most goals scored was seven, tallied in the same season. Other notable achievements from last night’s matchup include tri-captain Julie Chu moving ahead of Angie Francisco for sixth on the Harvard all-time scoring list...
...anything that’s categorically going to lead to an R rating,” George says. He shoots rape scenes in shadow. He shows piles of corpses, but he steers clear of horror film techniques. “I wanted it to be available to the widest possible audience,” George says...