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...Onishi founded one of Japan's largest international NGOs, Peace Winds Japan, which operates everywhere from Sudan to East Timor. Today, the 41-year-old Osaka native has noticed that his countrymen no longer consider helping less fortunate foreigners a shameful occupation. Two former Peace Winds alumni now serve in the Diet, while Onishi recently has been fielding job queries from disillusioned investment bankers. "People in Japan live in such comfortable, peaceful conditions," says Onishi. "I think more Japanese are realizing that it's our duty to help out overseas and bring some of our values to the world...
...Born Into Brothels” and “Live Nude Girls”—showed sex workers in several different lights. After each clip, Khan, who is an assistant professor at the Department of Law at Carleton University in Ontario, Canada, encouraged the assembled undergraduates, alumni, and graduate students to react to the characters and their portrayals. The intimate discussion, so to speak, centered around the various issues and factors surrounding the sex industry, including class, sexual orientation, race, and gender. They also addressed agency and power struggles experienced by the sex workers and their clients both...
...keep me up all night - 22% 7. Favorite Part of the H-Y weekend: a) The faces of the Yale students after we demolish their football team for the second year straight - 43% b) Massive amounts of morning alcohol - 37% c) Watching the Class of ’60 alumni in the bleachers drinking massive amounts of morning alcohol...
...mental health. He says he'll be back in Lincoln in January "to strike while the iron is hot" when legislators are scheduled to debate privatizing behavioral health services for troubled adolescents. Meanwhile, Boes had good news for Tysheema Brown. The priest said he's working with Georgia alumni to get her housing and find her son a spot, hopefully in Omaha...
Today WGU is the nation's largest supplier of math and science teachers in urban school districts. And its alumni are hired by such FORTUNE 500 companies as Microsoft and AT&T. "[WGU] has earned a reputation for producing high-quality graduates, particularly in education," says Kevin Kinser, a professor at New York's University of Albany who studies online learning and is not affiliated with...