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Jafar and other young Iraqi-Americans at Harvard are trying to help put together the pieces of broken families and a broken country??all from thousands of miles away...
...Rosen said that he invited Summers to speak because “he has always been committed to the College and always made the effort to visit the Houses.” The former Treasury secretary also devoted much of his prepared speech to a discussion of the country??s current economic turmoil—in particular, yesterday’s decision by the Federal Reserve to lend up to $30 billion to JPMorgan Chase to absorb floundering investment bank Bear Sterns. Summers said that the takeover was “as dramatic an episode...
...education for good. Ian R. Klaus, a graduate student in history at Harvard, arrived with his “feet on the ground, head in the sky” in Iraq in 2005, two years after the U.S. invasion, to teach English literature and American history in the country??s Kurdistan region...
...this time, to replace Cheerios and Fruit Loops with some kind of inferior generic cereal. Since then, Harvard students have made themselves heard on many subjects, from the wages of campus security guards to the proper use of Hilles Library. But Harvard—like most colleges around the country??has been curiously quiet on the subject of the Iraq...
...exploring the possibility of having an open forum to address this issue in the upcoming weeks. The clashes comes amidst preparations for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Jacqueline Bhabha, executive director of the University Committee on Human Rights Studies, hopes that the conflict will draw attention to the country??s human rights situation. “The opportunity of having the August Olympics should be used to raise attention of the human rights issues in China,” she said...