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...public buildings, requiring conservative young women, including the daughters of the current Prime Minister, to go abroad to study. When a woman named Merve Kavakci won election to the Turkish parliament wearing a head scarf in 1999, she was booed out of the Assembly and subsequently stripped of her citizenship. Now the country's conservative Muslim Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants to lift the head-scarf ban, and millions of conservative Turks would be pleased if he did. But Erdogan risks provoking the ire of hard-line secularists. At a recent secularist demonstration in Ankara, a chanting mob surrounded...
...most pressing political issues of the day at the Harvard Political Review, the Harvard Political Union, and the IOP’s Policy Program, respectively. Students can also impart their passion for public service on others, be it by training Harvard employees to become citizens as a citizenship tutor or teaching Boston students about being an informed citizens in the CIVICS program. Beyond Boston, students raise awareness about politics among young people through the National Campaign for Civic Engagement, and they take the political pulse of youth in America through the IOP Survey...
...potential without its missing players.Off the field, the effects will be much more difficult to gauge. Murphy has taken great pains to point out that this is very much an unusual problem for Harvard football.“I think historically our kids have had a remarkable record of citizenship on campus,” Murphy said.“If you look at the kids we’ve had in our program, at least during the time I’ve been here—almost 13 years—98 or 99 percent of them are world...
...Buchanan's America With regard to what makes us fellow Americans, conservative politician and pundit Pat Buchanan asked, "Is it simply citizenship? Or is it blood, soil, history and heroes?" [Aug. 28]. Perhaps he should ask the families of fallen soldiers with names like Ram?rez, Fern?ndez and Garc?a. Many of those heroes came from cities with names like Los Angeles, El Paso and Santa Fe. Buchanan seems to think he is waging a culture war when in fact he is fighting history?American history. Alvaro Gonzalez Miami...
...grassroots political organizer Karen Hicks, youth service corps leader Alan A. Khazei ’83, Republican communications strategist Christina Martin, and Ambassador George E. Moose. Each fellow will lead a study group open to the entire Harvard community. The Pakistani-born Falkner, who gained British citizenship in 1983, is a member of the “front bench,” or party leadership team, of the Liberal Democrats in the United Kingdom. Appointed to the House of Lords in 2004, she is one of a half-dozen Muslims—and just two Muslim women?...