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...said W. Hugo Van Vuuren ’07, who was born and raised in South Africa. “It connects people across years and countries.” Van Vuuren credits the Harvard Gumboots group for enabling him to discover more about his own country??s culture and history. “South Africans—in spite of our tumultuous history—are one of the warmest people. Our culture is very easygoing and accommodating to other people, and you really see that in Gumboots,” Hugo said. “Whenever...
...world considers to be relatively minor, would not only be a political disaster for NATO members, but might risk direct war between NATO and Russia. With NATO decreasing its support for the ongoing war in Afghanistan, it is hardly realistic to expect that the alliance will support a small country??s politically dubious conflicts...
...Imagine the uproar if an American politician called for loyalty tests and the expelling of the country??s remaining indigenous population. This is precisely what Lieberman has proposed. Will he really be welcomed in Washington at the White House or State Department...
...macaca,” or monkey. In the 2006 and 2008 U.S. congressional and presidential elections, American voters signaled a desire to transcend a history of Jim Crow discrimination. In Israel, however, the country is on an opposite track with careers buoyed by bigotry directed at the country??s Palestinian minority...
...United States, however, lies an additional, suppressed narrative. Although the media have paid much attention to the problems inherent to American public education since the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act in 2002, the public eye has been largely turned on the difficulties and injustices plaguing the country??s underfunded urban school districts. Rural public education, however, poses its own unique set of challenges—and, at the risk of sounding trite, opportunities. In just over three months, I’ll begin teaching in the Mississippi Delta, and even attempting to imagine what...