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...international experience are fruitful, as the report on the Harvard College Curricular Review (HCCR) rightly suggests. After proposing that all students “pursue a significant international experience during their time in the College,” the report broadly defines international experience to include not just study abroad, but any activity that causes “immersion in another culture for an extended period of time,” such as “international internships, independent research, volunteer work, or employment abroad.” The authors of the HCCR strongly believe that a Harvard education should...
...Fiji, says entry tests are getting tougher: "Most of our sons who would like to join can't meet the standard, so they are looking for other employment." Men who join Fiji's 3,000-strong military can double their meager salaries by serving with U.N. peacekeeping missions abroad. Some 600 are currently doing so, 134 of them in Iraq. Fijian blue helmets in the Sinai and Lebanon - where 36 were killed during a 24-year deployment - "were well regarded," says defense analyst Jim Rolfe, of the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, in Hawaii. "But those commitments have wound...
...more than one million eligible Iraqis living abroad, however, have nothing to fear from the insurgency. So reports of a low turnout among Iraqi exiles may be explained by other factors. As few as 10 percent of Iraqis living in the U.S. are expected to vote, and the worldwide total among exiles may not exceed 25 percent in the 14 countries where voting has been arranged. Analysts blame the logistical difficulties of registering and voting, and mixed feelings among exiles about the poll...
...while still a college student, Babi quickly became a favorite of Indian audiences dazzled by her striking beauty. She appeared in more than 50 movies, pushing the boundaries of conservative Hindi films by wearing bikinis and smoking and drinking on screen. Reportedly suffering from schizophrenia, Babi spent several years abroad, returning to India in 2002. She spent much of her later years in seclusion in her Bombay home...
...Iranian-born Ayatollah-certainly an unlikely Tom Paine figure -that forced the administration to scrap its own plans for Iraq and agree to hold elections by the end of January 2005. Still, once the decision was made, President Bush stuck to his guns despite repeated entreaties at home and abroad-and from a number of Iraqis that had worked closely with Washington-to postpone the poll. And the election could mark a major turning point for the U.S. mission in Iraq...