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...treating Africa as a “charity case.” “We come to Africa with our own set of priorities and assumptions of what needs to happen there,” he said. “You have got to believe that countries can develop themselves.” Currently, only 1 percent of Rwandan students attend university, he said. His organization aims to provide scholarships to disadvantaged students in order to foster a new generation of Rwandan leaders. Farmer and Ellis’ speech was sponsored by the Child Advocacy Program...
...establish the Yale School of Drama, and the rest, as they say, is history. His departure ensured Yale’s well-known dominance over Harvard in the theater world.EXTRACURRICULAR RENAISSANCEWhile Yale’s dramatic scene took off in an institutionalized setting, Harvard’s began to develop into what was, by the 1960s, a student-driven extracurricular environment of chaotic and creative passion.Although some practical dramatic arts courses were—and continue to be—taught through the A.R.T., these hands-on courses in subjects like directing and acting were not counted for any concentration...
...profit from this new East Asian reality. "People like us are building a bridge," says Zhang Liling, a native of the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou who has lived in Japan for 18 years and runs a television company that delivers Chinese programming to her adopted homeland. "We can develop good personal relationships so that political disagreements won't be the only thing that define the situation between Japan and China...
...Introducing the informant After 9/11, it was painfully clear that the FBI lacked human intelligence. As agents began to develop Muslim informants, or "assets," as they are called, things changed. The number of informants used in terrorism investigations has "increased exponentially," says Art Cummings, deputy assistant director of counterterrorism at the FBI. That is a big improvement. But informants are not what most people think they are. They are not undercover FBI agents; they are untrained civilians who need something - badly. Usually, they need money or a way to reduce their prison sentences or avoid deportation. Many have criminal records...
...information in footnotes, including a telephone call in which an Iranian general expresses exasperation at questions about a program that he says stopped years before.) But while asserting that Iran may no longer have a weapons program, the new report also stresses that Iran is continuing to try to develop the technique to enrich uranium on a massive scale and that it could, theoretically, manufacture enough highly enriched uranium, or HEU, to build a bomb "during the 2010-15 time frame." (Iran says it is enriching uranium for peaceful purposes to use in energy production and does not intend...