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...RECORD, PLEASESome advocates say that the best spokespersons are those who are transgendered. The catch: until the environment is safer, those students do not feel comfortable coming forward. Of the students and faculty The Crimson identified as transgendered for this story, all preferred to speak anonymously to avoid repercussions.“It’s a challenge that every movement like this has faced—in any sort of push for non discrimination, you start with a group that by definition isn’t protected. It makes it very difficult for that group to openly or vocally...
...foreign interference and invasion (including the U.S.’s ongoing economic sanctions), because outside pressure is counterproductive and undermines positive, grass-roots change. Foreign interference destroys civilian lives, institutions, and infrastructure, and provides a pretext for heightened repression. Solidarity with Iranian dissidents must be sophisticated enough to avoid manipulation by the neo-conservative agenda. Make no mistake, the first victims of any U.S. aggression against Iran—completely left out of the agenda of the “Freedom Concert”—would be on-the-ground Iranian progressives...
...wake of housing randomization, blocking has occupied a major slice of the scramble of freshmen year at Harvard. Some tight cliques form blocking groups in September, while other groups are a mish-mash of frightened freshmen who come together at the last moment in order to avoid lonely floater-status...
...Feingold?s call to censure President Bush for his domestic surveillance program, which allows warrantless searches of people living in the United States and suspected of connections to terrorism, wasn?t that surprising, even though it had his normally chatty Democratic colleagues in the Senate ducking reporters to avoid talking about it. But Feingold may not have had his colleagues in mind in advocating censure. Increasingly, with at least 10 senators considering a run at the presidency, the place dubbed the World?s Greatest Deliberative Body often seems like a political laboratory where potential candidates trot out different ideas that...
...Their motivations are pretty clear. China's strategic stake in Iran's energy sector makes comprehensive sanctions intolerable. Russia's own economic ties with Tehran give it a similar, although not quite as critical, incentive to avoid sanctions. Just as important, both sides are determined to avoid letting the Security Council become a platform for confrontation as it was before the Iraq invasion. And though both countries are committed to the nuclear nonproliferation system that Iran is being accused of threatening, neither views Iran as as big a strategic threat to its own interests and influence as does...