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...team than for our record haul of 24 Winter Olympic medals. Theo Luykenaar Burlington, Canada Learning Europe's Values I was very surprised by the Europeans' resistance to Indian tycoon Lakshmi Mittal's takeover bid for Arcelor steel [Feb. 13]. We in the East are working very hard to establish societies based on European values. But the European hostility toward an Indian's move into their world has shattered our confidence. On the merger issue, it is very sad to note that the Europeans turned out to be as conservative as any traditional Easterner. Their reaction confirmed that a strong...
...Senegalese director Alain Gomis, about a child's attempts to understand the world ("When I shut my eyes, are people still there?"). The festival will open with Anita Roddick: Mrs. Body Shop, a documentary by German filmmaker Thomas Weidenbach that focuses on Roddick's work in Ghana to establish a women's shea butter co-operative. Says Yidana Ibrahim, a Ghanaian filmmaker whose documentary on water issues, In Your Hands, screened last year: "This festival will encourage more young Ghanaian filmmakers to make environmental films. This festival could really have an impact." And once the schoolkids take off their eclipse...
Just two days after the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) raised questions about an Undergraduate Council (UC) plan to establish a center that would reduce coursepack costs, the UC passed a new proposal last night urging Harvard to help low-income students pay for course materials.The proposal, co-sponsored by the Students Taking On Poverty (STOP) Campaign, supports the establishment of a Course-Cost Assistance Program, which would use Financial Aid Office funds to provide $125-per semester stipends to undergraduates with family incomes under $40,000. Under the UC plan, students with family incomes between...
...says. "But should I prove wrong, I can only say that there are no principles left in politics any more." His reaction was echoed by Tymoshenko in a TV interview last week. "If they go for it, what was the revolution all about, then?" she asked. Failure to establish a workable government won't just call into question the meaning of the orange revolution. A standoff between Yushchenko and the Rada could unleash the violence and disintegration the revolution avoided. "The country will not endure the ensuing confrontation," says Lytvyn. "Its stamina is exhausted." Fair elections are a legacy...
...recognition that the other has a legitimate (or, least, unavoidable) interest and role in shaping events in Iraq - and that the interests of both sides can be better served by coordinating their interventions. And in light of the mounting sectarian political tension, each side has good reason to establish channels of communication for crisis management...