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...Belfer Center, said that Iranians feel they have done enough to create an alliance between the two countries. “We supported you after 9/11, especially against the Taliban,” said Miller, speaking from the Iranian perspective. “We thought we had begun to make strides, but then we couldn’t have been more shocked by this ‘axis of evil’ speech.” “The majority [of Iranian diplomats] feel it is a fruitless pursuit,” he said. After the panel, one student...
...cost flights to Dublin from Katowice, Cracow and Wroclaw were jammed for months. Newspapers sprang up to serve the new arrivals; bulletin boards outside Catholic churches across Ireland filled up with notices looking for laborers, many of the advertisements written in Polish. In one English county, officials have begun erecting Polish road signs because immigrant truck drivers were getting confused...
...transsexuals can choose their official gender, but that's not the only sign that Spaniards take the idea of sexual equality further than most. Two days later, crosswalk signals in Fuenlabrada, south of Madrid, suddenly donned skirts. In an effort to promote "equality in traffic safety," the town has begun installing lights that flash up alternate male and female figures; metal signs are also being amended. "[Old] traffic signals leave half the population invisible," says local police chief José Francisco Cano. The inspiration for change came from the city of Lugo, which marked International Women...
Harvard has unveiled to much acclaim the proposed Institutional Master Plan for its Allston campus. But I wonder where the community master plan is. Harvard has to its credit begun to plan a “green campus” in Allston. Where is the planning to make Allston/Brighton a “green community”? So much good could come of a real partnership, where Allston extends to Harvard a neighborly hand, and Harvard helps create the urban fabric and the open space, the properly scaled campus and the cultural resources that will make Allston attractive to residents...
Frequently when Americans develop such attitudes, I find they had begun their studies in Oxford with great uncertainty regarding their degree course. Some uncertainty is common and expected for Americans. Given the differences between the countries’ systems of undergraduate education, most Americans are technically qualified to pursue a wide range of Oxford masters degrees. And when, as is common, they plan to do their doctoral degree back in the United States, the wealth of Oxford’s offerings can for a few be crippling rather than exhilarating, and delays and indecision regarding the optimal course...