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...graduate of the famed Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C., don’t let her Quaker background fool you—Jenny has already proven herself more than able to cover a wide swath of religions—well, so long as its Mormonism. Jenny hopes to expand on this already diverse area of coverage with her editing skills in the next year...
...world’s fifth wealthiest man, Saudi Arabian Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud, is donating $20 million to Harvard to expand Islamic studies, the University announced yesterday. The donation will be used to launch a University-wide Islamic studies program and to endow four senior professorships, according to a press release. The gift will also fund a new initiative, the Islamic Heritage Project, which will digitize classic Islamic texts and make them available via the internet. Alwaleed, who is the nephew of the late King Fahd, became the center of controversy shortly after the September...
...second with a population of 1.1 billion. But because of Beijing's long-standing one-child policy, China's working-age population will begin to decline in the next 10 years. Meanwhile, India's youthfulness?350 million of its citizens are under age 15?ensures its workforce will expand for decades, potentially enabling it to outstrip China's economic pace through sheer weight of numbers. "This is a key thing," said Kamal Nath, India's Minister for Commerce and Industry. "China is aging faster than any other country in history. It is growing old before it has grown rich...
...sides together with a limited reform package scheduled for a vote in the Legislative Council on Dec. 21. For the 2007 ballot for a Chief Executive, Tsang, the current frontrunner, proposes doubling the electoral college from 800 to 1,600; for the 2008 legislative ballot, he wants to expand the number of directly elected seats from 30 to 35?still just half of the total number. For a city of 6.9 million well-educated, well-traveled and well-informed people, the changes fall far short of their aspirations and add up to meaningless gestures. Who can blame Hong Kongers...
...look to the future of the South Asian Studies program. “One of the most essential things we need to do is to give the momentum to younger students for South Asian initiatives,” he said. “It will be hard to expand the program when a continuing interest in South Asia is not definite...