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...declining popularity in mainstream culture, Valentine does her part to keep the genre vibrant in the classroom for new generations of writers.Valentine held her first teaching position at Barnard in the spring of 1968, in the midst of political tumult. After a month of classes, Vietnam protestors at Columbia shut down the university, she recalls.“It was a very interesting time to be a student and to be a teacher. And to be a human being for that matter.”Valentine credits much of her teaching style to her old mentor, William Alfred, and says...
...down my underwear, and tore it to pieces, and kept on hitting me on different parts of my body asking me to bend down. I refused, but they forced me." Gamal Eid, Al Sharqawi's lawyer, said when he saw his client after the beating, his eye was swollen shut and his body covered in cuts and bruises. "This sexual assault is a new variety of torture being used against the activists," he said. "I haven't seen any beating this bad since 13 years ago, when the government was cracking down on Islamists...
...Massoud's Panjshir valley stronghold feel marginalized. Foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah, the last member of the powerful Panjshiri elite to hold a cabinet post, was dropped by Karzai in a reshuffle earlier this year. "The Panjshiris who led the Northern Alliance are angry because they have been ostracized and shut out from positions of power by this government," said Michael Shaikh, an analyst with Human Rights Watch...
...India. Last week the government reserved an additional 27% of university seats for groups that are officially known as the Other Backward Classes (OBCs), to go into effect next June. That decision sparked demonstrations in many Indian cities and towns. University faculty staged walkouts, students protested and public hospitals shut their doors to all but emergency cases. "Modern India should be built on merit, not caste," says Sudip Sen, a Ph.D student in biochemistry at the supercompetitive All India Institute of Medical Sciences. Officials say the fresh quota is necessary because the lower castes are still marginalized. But critics...
...Countless other Indian medical workers who have gone on strike this week feel much the same as Sen, which is why India's sudden battle over affirmative action makes the ongoing divide in the U.S. over racial preferences seem tame by comparison. Public hospitals across the country have shut their doors to all but emergency services; private hospitals in some Delhi suburbs are following suit; trade unions have called for a morning of civil disobedience; and students at India's elite business schools are meeting to plan their own protests. In spite of the disruption, the government has sworn that...