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Turkey is an exception to many rules. Women in Turkey are the most liberated in the Muslim world, though Malaysia and Indonesia come close, having hosted relatively progressive cultures before Islam came to Southeast Asia in the 9th century. In Turkish professional life women enjoy a level of importance that...
Our missing colleagues finally arrive, and I leave thinking that maybe this evening wasn't very different from the original Thanksgiving: people from two warring cultures sharing a meal together and realizing, briefly, that we're not so different after all.
Tijuana Ricks and Michael Gillespie have been dating for three years and hope to marry. The African-American Ricks, 23, a Yale-drama grad student, and the Caucasian Gillespie, 29, a chiropractor, always loved the idea of blended-race children. But since Sept. 11, the idea of mixing up America...
The material from Foreign Cultures 17 is not quite propaganda, but it comes close. And one thing is clear: The course has not delivered what it promised at the beginning of the term.
Sims has said that was one of his proudest days, and that he heard nothing but positives after he gave his speech. Even at “liberal Harvard,” Sims says the exposure to new cultures, faiths and ideas has only strengthened his own commitment.