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...along the lines of the ties of friendship that we’ve had for generations,” Cole said. “In the light of Harvard’s commitment to engage more broadly in international scholarship, to increase the opportunities for our students to study abroad, and to better understand other societies and cultures, the gift of this collection from Harvard to [Sun Yat-sen] has created an important bridge,” Cline wrote in an e-mail response forwarded to The Crimson by Brainard. According to Cheng, Sun Yat-sen University was chosen because...
...furious that the President's big speech last week touting progress in Iraq was largely drowned out by disclosures that the U.S. command in Baghdad had been secretly planting rosy stories in Iraqi newspapers. Administration sources say Karen Hughes, who is in charge of improving the U.S.'s image abroad, is fuming and that neither she--as the State Department's Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy--nor such senior Pentagon officers as Joint Chiefs Chairman Peter Pace knew of the program until the Los Angeles Times broke the story last week...
...black sites" were set up to avoid the scrutiny of U.S. courts. Some of this can be explained as a natural reaction to the trauma following the attacks on New York City and Washington. But with Cheney himself lobbying to exclude the cia from future restrictions on torture abroad, excuses about the special nature of that time ring hollow. The irony is that the controversy Washington has unleashed by its conduct threatens to undermine real achievements in the struggle against terror. A case in point is rendition. That's a practice that involves the transfer of a terror suspect from...
...Minister Dermot Ahern reportedly said after a Washington meeting with Rice that she expected U.S. allies to take it on trust that the U.S. does not allow abuses of prisoners. But the administration appears to be distinguishing between abuse - which it denies - and holding ?ghost? detainees in secret prisons abroad, which it has not denied, but only refused to confirm on the record or give details. Indeed, U.S. officials hint that at least some foreign officials have been in the know on movements of CIA aircraft, secret holding facilities or other operations, those governments may be getting a message that...
...students who have been yearning to stargaze in the southern hemisphere, work in a lab in East Asia, or do cross-cultural research in Cape Town, a new initiative at Harvard may be the answer. On Nov. 27, the Faculty Committee on Education Abroad and the Office of International Programs (OIP) announced the start of a new study-abroad program—a fund that will allow professors who have designed undergraduate excursions into the outside world to realize their plans. For the Faculty Innovation Fund Grant, professors from a variety of disciplines were challenged to devise trips abroad...