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...this trend in local and national journalistic priorities continues, college newspapers must pick up the slack in order to hold their institutions accountable. While professional papers are still better suited to cover higher education, since they do not suffer from conflict of interest, student publications are the next best option. If they do not pick up where the professionals leave off, controversial university policies could take effect without proper, outside scrutiny. In order to prevent this and ensure that their coverage remains largley free from bias, college papers should strive to become independent from their universities whenever possible...
...dignity. They reflect a very disturbing larger trend in the debate about the Middle East—the dangerous dehumanizing of “the other side”—which, rather then leading us toward a long-term solution and lasting peace, further deepens the conflict. As Jews, mindful of our long history of persecution and discrimination, we ought to be particularly vigilant when the value of the lives of another group is called into question...
...What is curious about [the ruling] is that this has been done under a Congress still in support of the Defense of Marriage Act,” she said. “D.C. is not a state, it is a federal territory, which means there is a direct conflict between what the D.C. standard is and what federal...
Internet censorship “runs exactly counter to what Google is all about,” Debby Soo, a former content acquisition associate at Google, said yesterday during a panel discussion on the ongoing conflict between Google and China...
...apparent jostling for influence is making Nepal's tricky politics even trickier. By far the most difficult issue left unresolved since the 2006 peace talks is the integration of the former Maoist guerrilla fighters into Nepal's army, a conflict that led to Prachanda's resignation as Prime Minister last year. India's military academies have historically been the training ground for Nepal's top officers - the Nepali army chief graduated from the Indian Military Academy in Dehradun - so the Maoists have long claimed, most famously in a fiery speech by Prachanda in December, that India backs the Nepal army...