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...everything is possible; in France, by contrast, everything is easy but nothing is possible. There is zero job security in Yekaterinburg. France has a plethora of long-term, short-term, temporary and limited work contracts that are at the heart of the current dispute. Russia in theory has a civil code that lays down workers' rights, but in practice you get hired the same way you get fired, at the snap of a finger. Précarité, the word that brings millions of young French people out into the streets, is the norm there. Forget about a pension...
...sophisticated work.”Perhaps Knep unconsciously senses this distance in his work, as his next exhibition intends to explore a more human theme: “the territory of healing” in Memorial Hall’s remembrance of the Harvard students who died in the Civil War—given historical significance by the fact that the space doesn’t memorialize Harvard Confederates. The exhibition will be active from April 6 until April 23; Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Saturday 2 p.m. to 7 p.m.; and Sunday...
...process of national reorganization.” In their quest for security, they lost sight of what they were securing: there was no room for Congress, independent judiciary, free press, or fair trials for suspects. The Argentine military hunted subversive terrorists but then moved on to civil dissidents: they targeted everyone from union leaders to liberal college students. These people, according to the de facto President, were neither alive nor dead; they were just desaparecidos.But what did that mean? At illegal detention centers, they were tortured in the name of “national security” or their keepers?...
...very idea that one supports a better understanding of Islam suggests that one is trying to do something evil.The ubiquitous innuendo which is stirred up around the support of Islamic studies at Harvard accords with the fact that nearly half of Americans recently voiced support for systematically curtailing the civil rights of Muslims, and 85 percent of American soldiers in Iraq believe that Saddam Hussein was responsible for the 9/11 attacks and that is why we invaded Iraq. America has become ready to believe the worst of Muslims—without regard for evidence. There are many directions in which...
...locations in total. “Most people in the African Diaspora are unaware of what the African Union is,” said YALDA member Martha A. Tesfalul ’09. “We want to popularize that and get information to people so that civil society in the African Diaspora can make its contribution.” Blake showed a documentary chronicling the transition of the Organization of African Unity, founded in 1963, into the African Union in 2002, and spoke of reconnecting Africans who had been brought to the west because of the trans-Atlantic...