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...solved by democratic means, not military ones." As part of its European Union accession bid, Turkey passed a number of reforms designed to improve human and cultural rights for its Kurdish population, estimated at 20 million of Turkey's total 71 million. But that process has stalled amidst backlash from some European leaders opposed to Turkey joining the EU under any circumstances, and a related rise of Turkish nationalism...
...also assumes that film scenes showing adult characters smoking causes young people to smoke. Amidst all the cultural messages young people receive, film dramatizations can’t compare to the influence of friends, family, teachers, and doctors, among others. Besides, if we accept the fact that minors should not see films depicting unhealthy behavior, they will not see movies about anorexia, war, drug abuse, suicide, and many other topics – even though these films might help them understand the world better...
Sand and Arth both agreed with the sentiment behind Bush’s statement, stating their wish for the reinstatment of an ROTC program at Harvard, which the Faculty of Arts and Sciences terminated in 1969 amidst the Vietnam...
...chose mostly B’s, your study style is...“Dining Hall Ditz.” You sit in the dining hall amidst a growing heap of half-eaten bagels and half-finished cups of coffee, and you spend more time complaining about how much you work you have than actually doing it. The thing is, I am sitting next to you. And it is annoying. So shut...
...Harvard College Women’s Center. The previous issue of the magazine, which founder and editor-in-chief Thea L. Sebastian ’08 called a “slightly more academic collegiate oriented version of Cosmopolitan or Seventeen,” came out in December 2005 amidst questions over its financial sustainability. This year, the magazine printed only 200 copies—3300 fewer copies than last year’s pioneer issue—with grant money from the Ann Radcliffe Trust and the Undergraduate Council. “[We] printed out exactly as many copies...