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...superstardom started slowly, in Akpan’s case. “I played in the YMCA league when I was around four, and my dad always used to tell me that I hated it. I used to skip around and not pay attention,” he says...
...observed the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, and in 2009 he studied the Special Court for Sierra Leone. His research focuses on the benefits of making international criminal law more accessible to the communities actually affected by rights abuses, noting that this was the case in Sierra Leone, but not with...
...much more personal side of Keats is revealed at the new Houghton display, which includes two of Keats’ original letters to Brawne. Even through a strong plexi-glass case and after 200 years, Keats’ cursive seems to stream off the page. Without a scratch or crossed-out word, his letters speak to a passionate and sometimes humorous rapport with his beloved, whom he often addressed as “My dearest girl.” Keats wrote in one letter, “If illness makes such an agreeable variety in the manner of your eyes...
...Child Left Behind education reform was its expansion of state-mandated standardized testing as means of assessing school performance. Now most students are tested each year of grade school as well. That means that by the time they graduate to college - where the essay, the experiment and the case study still rule - the reprieve from bubble-filling and time limits is a welcome one indeed...
...refugee agency (UNHCR) in the region. "We know for a fact that most of these people are not asylum seekers. Some of them are, but most are illegal immigrants," he added. However, the UNHCR has condemned the procedure. On Nov. 26, in comments on an ongoing case before Israel's high court, UNHCR said that Egypt is not safe for asylum seekers. It mentions the regular imprisonment by Egypt of asylum seekers; "numerous" reports that Egypt deports some asylum seekers back to their home countries in breach of international law; and the "disturbing" shootings at asylum seekers, as reasons...