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Peru wasn’t the only country that took issue with an Ivy League museum. Following an investigation by the Italian government, the Princeton University Art Museum sent three ancient objects back to Italy in October 2006 and adopted a more conservative acquisition policy. Princeton spokeswoman Cass Cliatt says that these policies follow the 1997 United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organizations (UNESCO) agreements, which apply to ancient artwork and archaeological objects. However, ethical guidelines for the acquisition and holding of artifacts by museums have been in place for decades, the result of an agreement UNESCO made...
...Jianrong, a director of the Institute of Rural Development at Beijing's most prestigious think tank, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, or CASS, acknowledges that the recent assertions of rights over land by peasants are potentially transformational. "They're not widespread now but they could become symbolic ... of peasants ceasing to depend on the law and instead depending on 'natural law.'" Journalist and author Chen Guidi is more blunt: "If word of these declarations starts to spread to peasants around the countryside, it could become uncontrollable." Chen, with his wife Wu Chuntao, is the author of Will the Boat...
...Communist Party is aware of the farmers' anger but seems limited in what it can do. Yu of CASS notes that although there is "widespread recognition in both political and academic circles that the existing rural land system faces extremely grave problems, an extremely large gap also exists over the nature of the problem and how to solve it." Given that the party rose to power as an agrarian movement, conservative forces are blocking attempts to grant private ownership of farmland, which they believe would destroy one of the party's most fundamental socialist tenets. The answer...
...nights with an eye toward cracking down on alcohol violations. At the same time, the university announced new guidelines—that will take effect next fall—which require Princeton’s residential college advisors to investigate any resident seen with hard alcohol. While Princeton spokeswoman Cass Cliatt said that the new guidelines are “not a change of policy,” students said that in the past Princeton has had a relatively lax approach to alcohol. In fact, according to Benjamin Oseroff, a freshman at Princeton, the university’s administration...
After graduation, Harvard’s numerous alumni spread themselves all over the vast expanses of the globe. Yet after more than three decades, one very important alumnus will return home to Cambridge. The appointment of Cass R. Sunstein ’75—considered the most widely cited legal authority in the United States—to the faculty of Harvard Law School last Wednesday was received with vibrant enthusiasm. Dean of the Faculty of Law Elena Kagan even proclaimed that “If I could add only one person to the faculty, Cass would be that...