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An expulsion for Palestine is an honor, a sacrifice that pales in comparison to those of the Palestinian people,' Aidan Parisi wrote Thursday... Aidan Parisi, the son of a longtime State Department official who emerged last spring as a Columbia University encampment leader and is best known for owning an "emotional support rabbit," was among the students Columbia expelled for storming Hamilton Hall, he announced Thursday night. Parisi, a graduate student in Columbia’s School of Social Work, wrote on X that he was among the student activists expelled nearly a year after they stormed and occupied Hamilton Hall. Last spring,...

SACRAMENTO - The chief architect of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's unfulfilled plan to ``blow up'' bureaucratic boxes is leaving the administration as Team Arnold gears up for a critical battle. Paul Miner, one of the Republican governor's earliest political advisers, will leave next week to launch a new West Coast government affairs operation for General Electric. His departure comes at a decisive point for the governor, whose popularity is in decline as he prepares for a special election showdown that could define Schwarzenegger's historic impact on California. ``Now is the time,'' Miner said Monday. ``Arnold is an intellectual, energetic machine and...