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...incident that originally led to Mughogho’s arrest was part of a campaign in Mzuzu, Malawi’s third largest city in the north of the country, to make noise in protest of Muluzi’s quest for a third term...
...police arrested Mughogho and charged him with distribution of false literature likely to cause public unrest. He said they accused him of distributing leaflets that urged Malawians to blow their car horns as a form of protest...
...Athletes protest double standards and unfair prejudice from the Harvard community when instead they should examine their own narrow perceptions of their classmates. The Ivy League’s new “dead time” policy gives varsity athletes seven weeks to do exactly that. Encouraging them to explore other extracurricular interests and to interact with a broader range of fellow students provides an unprecedented opportunity to challenge misperceptions on both sides. And the cynicism of some athletes’ protests against the policy suggests that this opportunity comes not a moment too soon...
...path of confrontation with Sharon is motivated in no small part by his desire to see off challengers within his own party. But it remains to be seen whether either Mitznah or Ramon is considered a credible candidate by the party's base or were simply a protest-vote choice of activists looking to get ben-Eliezer out of the government. Labor's decision also inserts curious question mark after the name of foreign minister Shimon Peres. There is considerable speculation in Israel that the former prime minister might choose to quit his own party and remain at Sharon...
...University of North Carolina, moved to Minnesota to teach at Carleton College. It was there, in 1974, that he had his first brush with politics; informed by the college administration that he would not be retained owing to his poor publishing record, he rallied students and professors to protest on his behalf. He won tenure...