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Opinion | I’ve read student protesters’ manifestos. This is ugly stuff. Clueless, too.
Visiting Columbia University last week to see the pro-Palestinian protests took me back to my own student days at the University of California at Berkeley, from 1987 to 1991.
As a journalist for the Daily Californian, the university’s independent, student-run newspaper, I covered a lot of protests for causes as varied as divesting from South Africa, ending U.S. proxy wars in Central America, getting the ROTC off campus and staying out of the 1991 Gulf War (“no blood for oil”). But underlying all of the transitory passions of the day, I detected a powerful nostalgia for the 1960s — that heady era when mere students could imagine they were heroic figures in the vanguard of historical change. It often felt as if the students of my generation were simply historical reenactors of past glories for whom the act of protest was more important than the causes for which they protested.
Washington
Israeli strikes on Rafah safe zone kill at least 35, Gazan officials say
At least 35 people were killed and dozens injured in Israeli strikes on a tent camp in a part of Rafah that Israel’s military had designated a humanitarian safe zone for displaced Palestinians, according to Gazan officials.
The makeshift camp was within Block 2371 in the southern Gazan city, which was designated a humanitarian zone by Israeli officials on Wednesday, according to Muhammad Abu Hani, a civil defense official in the Gaza Strip. The Gaza Health Ministry reported the death toll and said that most of the victims were women and children.
Washington
In a throwback loss to the Mariners, the Nats get burned by the bullpen
For so long, the Washington Nationals had not faltered when their offense had the sort of juice it had Sunday afternoon against the Seattle Mariners. If Joey Gallo and CJ Abrams had the chance to stop and stare as their home runs flew into the seats, things generally went well. If they had to storm back from a deficit, such as the four-run hole they faced after four innings, they mostly held on thanks to a dominant bullpen. When they had turned to right-handed reliever Dylan Floro, who had not conceded a run in 21⅔ straight innings, they found success more often than not.
Washington
Troubled Southwest Virginia draws promise of help from Youngkin, lawmakers
RICHMOND — Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced plans for an economic development initiative in Southwest Virginia, a region still struggling with the loss of the coal industry and where Democratic House Speaker Don L. Scott Jr. (Portsmouth) has also mounted a new push to address lingering problems.
Youngkin unveiled his “Accelerate Southwest Virginia” initiative last week at an economic forum at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise. Though he was short on specific policy offerings, Youngkin touted a list of state-funded improvement projects related to transportation, education and health care, then announced a new $10 million small-business loan fund targeting the area through the Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission.
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