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The effort to end Angola's 16-year-old civil war quickened last week when Cuba removed its remaining troops, five weeks ahead of a June 30 deadline for a complete withdrawal. The evacuation of nearly 2,000 Cuban soldiers added a grace note to this week's scheduled signing...
Eva S. Jonas, acting master of Adams House, said she feels the entire incident is "unfortunate and unnecessary," calling it "some sort of immature behavior."
"She [Kerrigan] made a point, and now she should take it down," Jonas said. "[The offending symbols] cause so much frustration and take so much time from the administration and students. This is selfish."
Jonas said she thinks the students' actions are an abuse of free speech, citing their harmful effects on those offended by the flags. "I know how it feels to see the swastika," said Jonas, who grew up in Czechoslovakia during the Nazi occupation of that country. "I remember hearing the...
Yet until the birth in 1988 of Sajudis, the nationalist movement that now dominates the local parliament, Landsbergis was not an activist. "He was no more of a dissident than the rest of us," recalls Jonas Vruveris, a former colleague at the Vilnius State Conservatory, where Landsbergis used to lecture...