Word: citizen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Rossel, who is a Danish citizen, had also conducted field research in Syria, Turkey, and Sudan, said one of her advisers at Harvard, Richard H. Meadow...
...It’s a very small group of scientists who use their eminence to advance the most regressive views on race and intelligence.” “He is using his scientific eminence to advance his own political and social views as a citizen,” Jeyifo added. Jeyifo said that the public should forgive Watson if his apology is genuine. “If his complete renunciation of what he said is true, then he should be forgiven,” Jeyifo said. “It’s a distraction...
...cultural discordance the large numbers of immigrants has brought is familiar to many European countries. "I'm the only Swiss citizen in my apartment building," says Juliana Hochstrasser, 68, shopping near her home in the middle-class Zurich suburb of Dübendorf. "If I put up a notice in the laundry, my neighbors cannot even read it," she says, adding that she had already mailed in her vote for the People's Party...
...Swiss law, immigrants can apply for naturalization only after 12 years - a far longer wait than the five to seven years that are most prevalent in the the rest of Western Europe. The process is also arduous: Would-be immigrants are vetted first in their local communes by regular citizens, than at the canton level, before being approved by federal authorities. "I came here when I was seven. I got my Swiss passport only two years ago," says Kocakir Abdurrahman, 37, a Turkish taxi driver in Zurich. Abdurrahman said he had mailed his ballot last week, in his first vote...
...College and all of the graduate schools, Petersen’s tactless rhetoric undermined the many legitimate points he made and rendered us embarrassed to be among the constituency that he purported to represent. The hero of Petersen’s speech was the “student-citizen,” who, as a member of the Harvard community, pledged “civic engagement” through activism and “the principles of free inquiry and open debate.” It was the power of the student-citizen, argued Petersen, that fomented change in Harvard?...