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...Latin America Davíd Carrasco was the first to present, showing the “Mapa de Cuauhtinchan,” a drawing of a pre-Colombian metropolis. When Carrasco pointed to a portion of the map where an Aztec goddess is leading her people into a new era of salvation, he remarked, “Here we have, perhaps, an earlier incarnation of President Faust...
Adding a dose of campus politics to the inaugural ceremony Friday, Undergraduate Council President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 fired criticism at University administrators and called for a “new era of student citizenship” in his speech in Tercentenary Theatre...
...unilateral and frequently illegitimate actions," claiming that "the United States has overstepped its national borders in every way" and slamming its "greater and greater disdain" for international law. Enraged by U.S. moves to station a missile defense system on his doorstep, Putin withdrew Russia from a Cold War-era treaty governing the size of conventional military forces in Europe, and ordered its old turbo-prop Bear bombers out of mothballs to fly nuclear patrols along old Cold War frontiers. Last week in Russia, he made the U.S. Secretaries of State and Defense wait 45 minutes for him before delivering them...
...dramatic understatements of the death toll. Turkey cannot continue to deliberately avoid dealing with the disturbing facts of its history. Other countries have stared their genocidal demons in the face, and the fact that they have done so is a sign that they have moved past a dark era in their history...
...honored 28th University President Drew G. Faust with two festive events on the eve of her inauguration. Yesterday afternoon, Nobel laureate in literature Toni Morrison gave a reading during the first function celebrating Faust’s installation. Later in the evening, a concert helped ring in a new era of Harvard history. Standing amidst the towering columns of Memorial Church, Morrison brought the audience members—which included Faust, Corporation fellows, and other Harvard community members—back to the late 17th century. She took on the voice of a 16-year-old slave girl...