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Mexico's months-long political crisis took a precarious turn Saturday when President Vicente Fox sent special federal forces into the impoverished and violence-torn southern state of Oaxaca, after an American journalist and a local teacher were killed there on Friday...
...discussions and debates following each new poster or protest proves just how successful such tactics can be in disseminating a group’s message. I often joke that I measure HRL’s success in terms of how many of and how quickly our posters have been torn down. If I see our posters still hanging, then most likely they have not made the impact we had hoped for. That being said, the tactic is not an end but merely an effective means to get people who would otherwise ignore us to consider our arguments and point...
...make sure he’s not watching you type your PIN. But are those precautionary measures necessary to protect your identity, or are conspiracy theorists in for a disappointment? Say a package is oozing with strange goo, or is emitting ticking noises. Would it be unceremoniously torn open in a back room only to be revealed as a crushed pie or new watch? University Mail Services, which supervises the mail in several upperclass houses, answers with a resounding no. “If it has a person’s name on it, we wouldn’t open...
...interview with him on page B2). But this thin volume reflects two decades of his rethinking on war’s permissibility and the proper role of law—a rethinking that he says was prompted by questions from students who urged military intervention in war-torn Bosnia and Darfur. The result is spectacular. Kennedy’s book is extremely nuanced, as it should be, given his subject. And the prose is immensely readable: clearly expressed, full of examples to highlight abstract points, and organized so well that it allows readers to easily understand the framework of Kennedy?...
...TIME: Isn't what's happening in Iraq, though, not about al Qaeda principally, but about sectarian war and civil war, the potential for civil war? Aren't we on the verge in Iraq of occupying a country that's being torn apart in a civil dispute, a civil...