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...Rogue nations. Given his belief in dialogue, Obama has vowed to talk with America's enemies, or at least ideological opponents. In Asia, that means primarily North Korea. Obama should step up direct negotiations with Pyongyang. By talking one-on-one with Kim Jong Il, he would telegraph that the U.S. will no longer outsource North Korea policy - demonstrating to any future North Korean leadership that, if they play nice, Washington will woo them, and to Beijing that, if Kim falls, the U.S. will not stand by and let the North become a Chinese satellite...
This week's summit is a test of whether Tibetans are ready to step out from under His Holiness's shadow. The Dalai Lama is not attending any of the talks, nor has he appointed anyone in the Tibetan parliament-in-exile's leadership to direct them. Instead, all the summit delegates - regional Tibetan community representatives, members of parliament, youth leaders, independence activists and other NGOs - were divided into about 15 groups by choosing numbers at random on the first day of the talks. They have split up in the various government buildings scattered around Macleodganj, where the Dalai Lama...
...proposed by the strategic planning advisory groups. Flier said in a wide-ranging interview this fall that he intends to present the results of the strategic planning process to the Harvard Corporation—the University’s highest governing board—in early December. Golan will direct the Program in Graduate Education, a new initiative which aims to bring together the Medical School’s seven Ph.D programs—three of which span across different faculties. “It won’t be a new Ph.D program,” Golan said...
...TRL’s apparent mindlessness, it represented a crucial slice of pop culture—the idea of “climbing the charts”—that I loved and felt a part of. TRL facilitated the sort of direct public engagement with artists that you can’t get on YouTube, eMusic, or iTunes. Though it was a commercial experience, it was participatory, even communal. Beyond the viewer and the video, TRL was about you, your best friend, host Carson Daly, the hundreds of people waving signs outside of MTV’s studio...
Hundreds of Tibetan political leaders, activists and individuals from all over the world have begun a meeting in Dharamsala, India, that is unprecedented in its ambition: to bring all Tibetans together to decide their own future, without the direct guidance of the Dalai Lama...