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...paying full attention to conflation of religious and national identity. To dumb down and repackage this struggle as one between radical Islamic terrorists and the peace-loving citizens of “the world’s largest democracy” is to deny this complex history, lower the level of discourse, and ultimately justify bad decisions on the policy-making level...
...Russia was unabashedly smug about the outcome of the NATO summit that ended Wednesday in Brussels, where it was agreed to resume high-level relations with Moscow. Even though the NATO agreement specified a "measured and phased approach" to restoring ties - and insisted Moscow fulfill pledges to withdraw its forces in Georgia to pre-conflict positions - it was the Europeans' eclipse of Washington's harder line that Russian officials found most encouraging. (See pictures of Russia's military campaign in Georgia...
...many white-collar jobs continued to be all-white occupations. Northern blacks were forced to continue fighting for equal standing and reintegregation well into the 1980s. Today, their struggle continues.The book not only provides an in-depth historical perspective but also reaches the reader at a more emotional level with its many anecdotes of injustice in the North. Sugrue tells of the 1964 police shooting of a black junior high school student during a non-violent protest in Harlem. (Immediately after the shooting, the protest turned into a riot—“the largest uprising in the North...
...definitely have the combination of experience and advocacy on the University level to make a lot of our plans happen,” she said of her ticket, which pairs her with running mate and fellow UC member Kia J. McLeod...
...delicate.”But Lewis believes that poetry also has a meaning beyond the individual poet; it resonates physically within an individual and politically within a society.“If we don’t have language that’s robust and honest on the political level, we get sick as a society,” Lewis says. “Poetry shows language at its most eloquent, and the whole of society needs it.” Now at Harvard, Lewis is excited about her tenure as a Radcliffe Institute Fellow, and the chance to further...