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...example, he presented the history of the development of the automobile industries in the United States and in China. “It is crucial that we step up voicing concerns with our government,” he said. Students at the event, which featured a lunch of Middle Eastern dishes, said that they enjoyed the unusual discussion of the environment within the context of international relations. “It was kind of interesting that the headline was International Relations of Ethics, and I don’t think environment is something you immediately think of under that...
Like China, the Indians want Burma’s oil and gas and its co-operation in combating anti-Indian insurgencies in North-Eastern states. But most importantly, India is jittery at China’s influence over Burma, especially its “string of pearls” policy of establishing bases around the Indian Ocean, including one allegedly on the Burmese island of Great Coco. India has countered this with its own weapon and radar sales, and training for the junta’s military...
...residency with Harvard, the Silk Road Ensemble has spent the past week developing a chamber arrangement of Uzeyir’s Azerbajani opera “Layla and Majnun.” Before departing on a tour of Japan, the ensemble will present their retelling of this classic Middle Eastern love story as a work-in-progress to the Harvard community.CROSS-CULTURAL COMPOSITIONThe ensemble’s version truncates the original three-and-a-half-hour operatic score written for a full orchestra. While the original arrangement involved both Western and Eastern instruments, they were played separately. In contrast, this...
...definitely be in a good position. I competed last year thinking that I could win the national title. This could be the year.” The squad is setting its sights high both individually and as a team. The wrestlers look to win the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association Conference championship and to place in the top five at the NCAA Division I tournament. “We have high goals,” O’Connor said. “We’ll win the dual meets with our Ivy opponents. We’ll win conference...
...about empowering the people than about concentrating power in the hands of Chávez. Among the initiatives: eliminating presidential term limits; putting the now autonomous Central Bank under the President's control; and the creation of regional vice presidents. Provincial leaders like Ramn Martnez, Governor of eastern Sucre state and himself a socialist, consider the latter idea a lavish centralization of federal authority, as well as a betrayal of Chvez's Bolivarian Revolution (named for South America's 19th-century independence hero, Simon Bolivar). "This revolution was supposed to create more pluralism in Venezuela," says Martinez...