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Hindy Al-Weqayan, a senior at Cambridge Rindge and Latin, said she was harassed by another student and a substitute teacher at the school over her Arab heritage. Hindy's mother, Ellen Al-Weqayan, said that the classmate called Arabs "oppressors" and "dictators."
Conscientious objectors--those who can prove that they are opposed in principle to all wars, and not just this particular conflict--can substitute public service for military enlistment. Sometimes, however, they are assigned to non-combat duties in the military.
If quantity were any substitute for quality, the gulf crisis might have already been resolved by diplomatic means. Last week brought a flurry of summits, tete-a-tetes, initiatives and trial balloons, all aimed at averting a war over Kuwait that otherwise looked imminent. The European Community met in Luxembourg...
A substantial body of legal opinion backs the view of California Democrat Ronald Dellums, organizer of the petition, who argues, "The Constitution clearly gives Congress the right to declare war. This situation is too grave for one person to take us into it alone." Laurence Tribe, Harvard's famed professor...
The City of Cambridge recently became the center of controversy when some city councillors objected to the public display of a Christmas tree. The council voted to substitute a more universal seasonal symbol--a "peace tree."