Administrators are changing protest policies and adding programming on how to have more constructive arguments. University presidents are taking a stricter approach to the rules of daily life for students, hoping to tamp down protests and return campus life to a state of normalcy. (Korn, The Wall Street Journal)
Read MoreThe list was the first of its kind in the UK, and not uncontroversial (some critics declared it “anti-literary” or even “unEnglish”) but no one could have guessed just how important it would go on to be. Today, becoming a Sunday Times bestseller is the ultimate benchmark of commercial success for authors and publishers alike. (Segal, Ditum & Hackett, The Sunday Times)
Read MoreThe posters are instantly recognizable, a fixture on storefronts around the world whenever the Shen Yun Performing Arts show comes to town. The show is one of the most visible parts of the Falun Gong spiritual movement, whose three-decade history includes a brutal crackdown in China, claims that its members’ organs were harvested and a transnational repression campaign that continues to this day. (Hong, Rothfeld & May, The New York Times)
Read MoreAny visitor to Stonehenge in southern England will have marveled at how prehistoric Britons managed to transport, carve and carefully arrange the large standing stones that can weigh up to 30 tons. Now it turns out one of those stones – the 6-ton altar stone at the center… (Luhnow, The Wall Street Journal)
Read MoreShe won an Olympic gold medal in the boxing ring in Paris, but can the controversial Algerian competitor Imane Khelif – who was at the centre of the gender row that dominated the games – now land a knockout blow in court... (Swain, The Telegraph)
Read More“The main thrust of the whole meeting was to help us religious leaders understand the initiatives well enough to go back to our various communities and share how they can get on board,” explained the Rev. Betty Holley, a presiding elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Ohio Conference and professor of environmental ethics at Payne Theological Seminary. (Fodor, Religion News Service)
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