The Iranian government arrested hundreds of student activists, journalists,intellectuals, political leaders and professors during weeks of unrest following a disputed June 12 presidential election that incumbent Mahmoud Ahmedinejad claims to have won, despite complaints of widespread vote-rigging.

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Father Ratzinger was initially a reformer, says Professor Tina Beattie of Roehampton University, but was appalled by the social unrest and student uprisings of the late 1960s.

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The civil unrest of the previous decade had finally settled down, the student body was growing larger and more diverse, the university had changed its applications process to a double-blind procedure with no special consideration for gender, race, or ethnicity, and research in medicine and the physical sciences shared space in the curriculum with philosophy and art.

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