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...Faces of Iran" [Feb. 26], in which you pictured Iranians from various walks of life: There ought to be a law that every major news outlet in the country must run features like this anytime the U.S. government openly contemplates a military action, police action or "freedom fight" abroad. If we think we understand enough about a nation to know what is best for it, then we ought to be able to look its ordinary citizens straight in the eyes before killing them for their own good. And please spare those people speeches about how it is only their government...
...later taught at University College London. It was, she says, "a great adventure and a totally new experience." But she missed Poland and her family and last year she returned to a job at the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science in the southern city of Czestochowa. Her experience abroad will help develop the institute and "teach our students better," she says. As for other Poles, they too will return, Wozna believes, but only "in 10-15 years" when they have accumulated money and experience. "If everybody leaves, what will happen to this country? Somebody has to stay. I think...
...prides itself on the amateurism of its athletes (one reason why neither the school nor its Ivy rivals offers athletic scholarships). UCLA, on the other hand, which beat Harvard in the second round of this year’s NCAA Tournament, lists 24 professional soccer alumni at home and abroad on its school website...
...street. Even as the war generates more tenants for Walter Reed and other military hospitals, its $1 billion a week cost has sucked money out of stateside garrisons and hospitals. Last year, the Army had to trim spending by more than $500 million for posts at home and abroad to help pay for the war. That sounds like a lot of money. But it's really just a rounding error at the Pentagon. After the Bush White House said last month it would need $93.4 billion to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan through the end of September, Administration and congressional...
Most of all, the authors give little credit to the reality that Oxford is, in fact, in England. Like many Harvard students who are too caught up in their studies or extracurriculars to take a semester off to study abroad, I had never lived in a foreign country before attending Oxford. The experience of living in a different culture—particularly in a place as diverse as Oxford, where the majority of graduate students are international—was perhaps the best learning opportunity...