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Though Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 has made a major push towards increasing the number of students who study abroad??aiming for one-third of each class to study abroad at some point in their college careers—many students are hesitant to leave...
...think I need a semester abroad??at the University of Georgia,” declares Ben E. Click ’06, a native of Atlanta, Ga. “The South is like a different country...
...oligarchs has become routine: An obscenely rich Russian criticizes the president, often on his own TV station; Putin sends ski-masked officers from the Federal Security Service—the successor organization to the KGB—to confiscate assets and arrest the upstart; and the oligarch either escapes abroad??usually to London—or languishes in prison until he accedes to the president’s demands. Khodorkovsky hasn’t gotten past the languishing-in-prison stage, and, unlike his predecessors, it looks as though he will stand and face the trumped-up charges...
...large inspirations behind my choice of Ireland was the poetic and literary tradition; another was the mythology. I keep Yeats; The Poems next to my pillow and have a Field Guide to Irish Faeries on my shelf. This does not make much sense to most of my fellow Americans abroad??all hardworking, motivated students—who came here for the Guinness and to reconnect with their Irish roots...
Regarding “Students to Advise on Study Abroad?? (News, Sept. 24): Sure, I had an amazing study abroad experience, but now that I have returned, being gone is starting to haunt me. Although University President Lawrence H. Summers purports to be a great supporter of refining the study abroad program to make it more viable for students, perhaps he needs to inform the rest of his staff. Because everyone here seems to be bent on punishing me for leaving for a semester! Petitioning to leave was quite a hassle, but returning has proved even more difficult