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...like every Kuwaiti who wanted a college education before Kuwait University was inaugurated in 1966, went abroad to study. Before being graduated with a B.A. in mathematics from San Francisco State University, Khalifa spent two years at Berkeley, where his chemistry lab partner was Mario Savio, the radical student leader who founded the Free Speech Movement. "To be at Berkeley in the '60s was wonderful," says Khalifa. "We studied a bit, attended anti-Vietnam demonstrations and listened to Joan Baez, who was always around singing...
That thud heard last week was the sound of Europe's last Marxist dictatorship landing on the trash heap of history. Following three days of student riots in Tirana, Albanian President Ramiz Alia summoned leaders of the demonstrations to his palace. Alia then abruptly canceled the Communists' 44-year monopoly on politics. He announced that henceforth rival parties will be permitted in the interest of "further democratization...
Wang, like Chen, was formally charged last month with the same accusations. Charges of inciting counterrevolutionary agitation and propaganda have reportedly been -- or will soon be -- brought against at least nine other Tiananmen Square activists, including Wang Dan, 25, the Peking University student who helped set up the student forum known as the Democracy Salon, and Liu Xiaobo, a literary critic and lecturer at Beijing Normal University. A guilty verdict for counterrevolutionary activity carries a sentence of at least five years in jail; subversion carries a minimum penalty of 15 years in jail, but could also mean life imprisonment...
...Gardner, Mass. To be able to spend time with her three children during the day, she works the night shift, a schedule that usually allows her no more than four hours of sleep. "My kids tell me I'm always tired," she says. Amy Schwartzman, 35, a law student at Tulane University, gets up at 9 a.m. and, what with classes, moot court and work as a research assistant, often does not get home until 10 p.m. That's when she studies or unwinds. Nights of tumbling into bed at 3 a.m. make her feel "as if my brain...
Peters also kicks behinds. "Our kids are no different when you instill the work ethic and tell them, 'You've got to move your buns.' " Students will start wearing uniforms in January. They listen to Mozart in music class and begin Latin in the fifth grade. James Coleman, a sociology professor at the University of Chicago, argues that black schools can challenge black youngsters in ways integrated ones cannot. "You can make very strong demands on the kids. They can't blame it on whites," he explains. "In integrated schools, white teachers are often afraid to make strong demands...