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Following the postponement of an summer trip to Israel this July due to the country??s war with Hezbollah militants, 28 undergraduates will finally board a plane for Israel today. Students participating in the Harvard Israel Leadership Initiative, a 12-day traveling study seminar, will have the chance to “explore the challenges that face Israel” today as well as connect with local communities, according to Michael Simon, Associate Director of the Harvard Hillel. The ten students who were orginally slated to arrive in Israel on July 30 were notified less than a week...
...those who value pluralism and a strong press, it was a grave set of developments. Now, as laughter subsides from the latest incident of tom-foolery, Australians are left to ponder the bleak outlook for 2007 and fear the future of the country??s besieged media...
McCaffrey claims that the mainstream media’s depiction of Pinochet as a thief and murderer is overblown. The facts do not support his case. Pinochet’s thievery, perpetrated while ostensibly conducting the faithful realignment of his country??s economic institutions, resulted in a heist of $27 million stashed in bank accounts around the world. Evidently McCaffrey is also aware of the thousands of murders Pinochet perpetrated through the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional, as the author himself acknowledges at least 3,000 of the deaths on Pinochet’s hands. This...
...part-Romanian and part-Chinese, attributes his varied interests to his upbringing in Jamaica, where he says he cultivated a “fascination with the natural world” that would eventually lead to his decision to focus on cellular biology. His native country??s “rich visual culture” inspired a deep-rooted love...
...point of all this is nicely summed up in one of the few academic slogans worth remembering: Demography is destiny. If a country??s demographics are pointing towards decline, then decline it will. This decline might take time to set in and might even, for a while, be combated, but it is inexorable nonetheless. This is especially true in an age where wealth creation and economic dynamism are both so dependant on human, as opposed to physical, capital...