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...central resource for the College’s gay and lesbian students, a women’s center, and prayer space all fit this criterion. So does storage for the HRO’s unwieldy string instruments, and enlarged office space for the Harvard Foundation, which administers some 55 ethnic and cultural organizations on this campus. There isn’t really any reason why other groups, for whom a central location is not imperative to their successful operation, shouldn’t be expected to move to the Quad...
...Almost 80% of Iraqis are Arab, while some 15-20% are Kurds - a distinct ethnic group with its own language, history and culture, concentrated in northern Iraq, eastern Turkey, northeastern Syria, northern Iran and southern Georgia. Kurds have struggled for their rights as a cultural minority in all of those societies, often suffering vicious repression, but have enjoyed de facto independence in northern Iraq under U.S. protection since the 1991 Gulf War. Although they participate in Iraqi national politics and one of their key leaders, Jalal Talabani, is currently Iraq's president, the vast majority of Iraqi Kurds have signaled...
...region that comprises the three northernmost provinces of Iraq, is already showing signs of vigorous growth. Turkish, British and Canadian oil companies have held talks with Kurdish officials in recent months to revive old oil fields and drill new ones. Oil has the potential to jolt Iraq's precarious ethnic balance by injecting sizable revenues and foreign investment into an area about twice the size of New Jersey. Much of the work is still exploratory, but Western engineers and Kurdistan's Regional Government believe that huge riches could lie underneath. Exploration had been dormant for decades--the region first languished...
...anything about black history.” According to Engerman, black history is no longer divorced from American history in history textbooks. “The goal has really been accomplished,” Engerman said. “It is now more of an ethnic celebration”—akin to St. Patrick’s Day for Irish-Americans and Columbus Day for Italians, Engerman said. Another historian at the DuBois Institute, James C. McCann, noted that schoolchildren now know the names of Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth. “That’s real...
Yasin said he was also offended by the decision to publish the cartoons in Spare Change, a move that he said was irresponsible and offensive to certain ethnic groups...