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...Free speech cannot be only for the toughest skin—a sort of Darwinian struggle for the loudest and vituperative.” Some professors cautioned against voting down a motion with a seemingly noncontroversial message. “All of this is what the French might call an exercise in drowning a fish,” French historian Stanley Hoffmann said. “It would be seen as very bizarre in the hinterlands that Harvard has rejected a perfectly sensible motion protecting free speech.” Several amendments were made to the proposal over the course...
...never really left him. And with a cinematographer father, an exposure to filmmaking was part of his upbringing. A history and literature concentrator, Morgan is currently studying film, writing a thesis about collective memory and postwar national consciousness in France through cinema. This past summer he traveled to the French National Archives to perform the necessary research. “I think film has a much broader social impact in much subtler ways than might seem apparent,” he said. With a screenplay co-written with a friend from NYU all ready to go, Morgan hopes to head...
...prevent this feared transfer of terror across the Mediterranean, French officials say they need - and usually get - help from Algeria. Yet concerns that the Algerian regime may overestimate its successes fighting terrorist organizations troubles some French authorities. For example, Algerian officials and commentators indicated as recently as this year that military offensives and amnesty programs have decimated AQIM ranks, only to be quickly bloodied anew by spectacular attacks. Some critics also contend that underestimated official death counts indicate the regime may prefer to deny the extent of civilian suffering rather than acknowledge AQIM's deadly effectiveness. Within 24 hours...
...summit two weeks ago. An international coalition headed by the U.S. and France is heavily engaged in mediating an agreement over the presidency. France has been particularly active, with Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner spending much of the past three weeks in Beirut shuttling between bickering Lebanese politicians while other French officials have consulted the Syrian leadership. In reaction to the bomb attack, a clearly exasperated Kouchner said it was a "cowardly attack that shows a clear intention to cause instability," adding that the correct response is to proceed with the presidential election...
...Probably the biggest threat to us today is the scenario of a small, well-prepared group of Algerians making it to France without detection, and quickly unrolling an attack," a French intelligence official tells TIME. Interviews with French intelligence and counter-terrorism officials indicate recent busts of jihadists groups in France have uprooted networks seeking to recruit and transport young militants to fight U.S.-led forces in Iraq. The last group caught working toward an attack against France dates back to September 2005 - and had been working on instruction of AQIM's earlier incarnation, Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat...