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West met East met West when five Chicagoans of Near Eastern heritage introduced Harvard to one of the Orient’s greatest composers...
...would give them control over container shipping ports in Vancouver, Buenos Aires and a number of locations in Britain, France and a number of Asian countries.) "It's not exactly a shadow organization for al-Qaeda," says Flynn. Dubai, in fact, was one of the first Middle Eastern countries to join the U.S. Container Security Initiative, which places U.S. customs agents in overseas ports to begin the screening process from a U.S.-bound cargo's point of departure...
...best-qualified person is an Asian, we'd be delighted. If the best-qualified person is from somewhere else, we'd be delighted at that too. Western Europe has had three Secretaries-General, Latin America has had one, Africa has had two, and Asia has had one. Eastern Europe has never had any. If there's really a principle of geographic rotation, fairness dictates that Eastern Europe...
...over a period of several thousand years. The new study suggests that it could happen in a few hundred years. "That's a few feet per century," says Oppenheimer, "which may not sound like a lot, but it's more than society can handle. In places like the Eastern seaboard of the U.S., a 1-ft. vertical rise in sea level means a 100-ft. retreat of shoreline." In low-lying countries like Bangladesh, the resulting flooding could dwarf the 2004 tsunami...
...Oren was breaking into a Gaza synagogue with a sledgehammer. At Emerson Hall last night, Oren, who is also a historian and a visiting lecturer at Harvard this spring, recounted the traumatic experience of dismantling Jewish settlements during the Gaza disengagement.The Gaza is a narrow strip on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea that—from 1967 until last August—was controlled by Israeli forces.But last August, Israel withdrew its troops from the Gaza and removed approximately 8,000 Jewish settlers from the territory.And last night, Oren transported a room of 60 Harvard students back...