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...SENTENCED. JIN HAIKE, 26, XU WEI, 28, YANG ZILIN, 32, and ZHANG HONGHAI, 29, members of a Chinese study group; to extended prison terms for "subverting state power"; in Beijing. The four men were arrested in 2001 after they formed the New Youth Study Group to discuss sociopolitical issues and to write essays, some of which were posted online. Given that Communist Party organs have begun publicly discussing once taboo subjects such as political reform, the severity of the sentences?Jin and Xu have each been handed 10 years in prison and the others eight?has shocked human-rights activists...
Summers remained hesitant to discuss the fallout of one major change since last year, the high profile departure of former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West...
...more than ever, The Salient has become so reactionary that its views no longer raise a campus eyebrow. Nobody cares to discuss The Salient’s long, meandering article defending anti-homosexual bias. Its author, Gladden J. Pappin ’04, wrote a letter to The Crimson last semester in which he declared that Harvard should crack down on homosexuality as it had in the 1920 secret court uncovered by a Fifteen Minutes scrutiny. Now, many months later, he has written to “correct several misunderstandings...
...Sharon, for his part, has studiously avoided tipping his own hand, preferring to discuss only the security questions and hinting vaguely at his willingness to make "painful concessions" once all Palestinian violence has ended, while at the same time as signaling his right-wing political base that he has no intention of evacuating a single settlement. Despite the clear divergence with the U.S. position, Sharon has studiously avoided conflict with the White House, although where such conflict has arisen he has relied on the U.S. domestic political equation and the divisions within the Bush administration to walk Washington towards...
...deciding who embodies the knowledge they have gained and leads the career they hope to emulate. At commencement, students should get to hear a speaker with whom they are comfortable and from whom they can learn. The decision of Joseph McCarthy, senior associate dean at the KSG, to discuss with the student government future student involvement in the selection process is praiseworthy...