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...yesterday’s meeting, the Faculty approved the proposal to establish the new Department of Human Evolutionary Biology to replace the present biological anthropology wing of the anthropology department...
...Congress, that means promoting 38-year-old Rahul Gandhi as its most visible public face. Boyishly handsome and educated abroad, Gandhi has made it his mission to bring more young people into positions of power. He has pledged to hold elections for the leadership of the Congress youth wing within two years, and pushed the party to field more candidates under 40 years old. Gandhi is the ultimate symbol of dynastic politics - the son, grandson and great-grandson of Prime Ministers - but he sees no contradiction in also trying to push his party to change. "I'm actually...
...dismissed as a marginal case of excess or as an abnormality of the Israeli political system. Among Yisrael Beiteinu’s elected members of the Knesset are a former ambassador to the U.S. and a former senior commander in the police force. Theirs is not simply a right-wing political insurgency, but an outlook deeply rooted in Israeli politics...
...this crime wasn't anti-Semitic, what crime is?" agreed Laurent Joffrin in his editorial for the daily Libération as the trial opened. Joffrin warned that anti-Semitic thinking that has long been present among France's extreme right- and left-wing political groups is gaining traction in France's blighted suburbs. "In the exclusion of the projects, in the racism that strikes minorities, and in their social despair," Joffrin wrote, "the old plague has found favorable terrain...
...Afghanistan and Pakistan to take down insurgent-run web sites and the jam radio stations. The Afghan government, for its part, has opened a new $1.2 million media center with international support. Staffed by a team of Western-trained spin doctors, the facility includes a high-tech media monitoring wing and an outreach department tasked with building better working relations with journalists...