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...occur in Azerbaijan was through the influence of external actors,” said Sonia Chinn, a student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences who attended the talk. “I’m not sure I completely agree.” Aghazadeh said that his country??s Muslim majority and internal cultural differences are less important obstacles to democratization than is its oil wealth. “Where oil exists it’s very difficult to talk about democratization,” said Aghazadeh. “There’s a problem...
...departure from my semester abroad in Chile, Augusto Pinochet, the country??s ex-dictator, died. My host sister called it the best farewell the country could have given...
...been her near-devout fixation on all things ostensibly black, from her prized collection of African American Santa Clauses to marrying a Dominican man, my father, against the wishes of her family. Perhaps it was the feat of giving birth to two brown children, quite a deed, given this country??s paradoxical one-drop rule that holds a black woman can never give birth to a white child, as historian Noel Ignatiev points out. (But he also calls for the “abolition” of the white race—of its privilege, of its label...
Learning to live and navigate in a foreign country??“finding ways to make it ‘your own,’ so to speak”—is a useful “life lesson,” Spillman wrote in an e-mail...
...that involve human subjects. When the group considers projects in politically volatile regions of the world, its purpose is two-fold: It must protect the safety of both students and subjects.This past summer, Krister B. Anderson ’07 did research in Morocco on the repression of the country??s largest Islamic group. Before approving his research application, the committee made sure that he went to great lengths to prevent the people he was interviewing from potentially dangerous consequences from the government.“My proposal definitely received more scrutiny and took more time...