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Italy's press has always been written by and for the intellectual élite, says Paolo Mancini, a professor of the sociology of communications at the University of Perugia. The culture pages of the major dailies have the air of an academic journal. Graphics and layout are dense and often...
Car bombs now target NATO patrols, so you learn that it's a good idea to pull over and wait for the coalition convoy to rumble by to lessen the risk of becoming collateral damage. You try not to drive by the U.S. embassy or the Afghan ministries where the...
The first day of class in Iran comes with its own traditions, designed to help students ease into the academic year. First-graders have it the best. The children are designated as shokoofeh (literally, blossoms), and the teachers give each child a stalk of a fragrant flower. The principal raises...
Without access to the daily lives of teachers and their students, studies on Iranian schooling have proven to reveal more about their authors and our shifting preconceptions of Iran than any sort of reality on the ground. The truth is that postrevolutionary schooling in the Islamic Republic has not gone...
The Harvard Crimson: How did ‘Timbre and Flux’ come about?Larissa D. Koch: I graduated last March and I had enough repertory that I’d made while I was here that I could do an evening of work that I had created as...