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  • (Cornell) E-mails Target Professor For Showing Tibet Film

    04/16/2008 5:25:02 AM PDT · by Behind Liberal Lines · 18 replies · 91+ views
    © 2008 The Cornell Daily Sun ^ | Created Apr 16 2008 - 12:00am | By Michael Stratford
    ITHACA--As international attention on the situation between Tibet and China has increased over the past few weeks while China prepares for the Olympics, a Cornell anthropology professor was the subject of personal attacks posted to two University listservs last week in response to a film screening and discussion she organized on “the prospects for peace in Tibet.” After Prof. Kathryn March, anthropology, began publicizing the event several weeks ago, it immediately provoked a wave of impassioned e-mail responses, most of which criticized the event. A handful of the responses on the listservs were personally directed at March. “I … was...
  • MORFORD: Free Tibet? Hell, free America!

    04/16/2008 8:12:53 AM PDT · by SmithL · 5 replies · 39+ views
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 4/16/8 | Mark Morford
    Support the humble monks? You bet. But oh, let's not forget our own wonderfully abundant atrocities - I know I know I know — we don't exactly have huge platoons of nasty jackbooted soldiers storming through the streets in riot gear and gas masks and large sticks bashing down on the shiny heads of peaceful monks. We don't exactly have smashed and burning vehicles and dead bodies in the streets and vicious martial law, ethnic cleansings and curfews and media lockouts and blocked Internet access and all sorts of nefarious, disturbing reports of brutality and beatings and death. Well, except...