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...fact, the blockade may be driving once moderate Palestinians toward Hamas. The incentive is economic more than ideological: the Hamas militia is one of the few employers left. Says Dr. Eyad Sarraj, a mental-health expert in Gaza who is campaigning for an end to the siege: "The workers laid off from the factories are desperate. They have no money, no hope. So they go to the mosque and pray to God, and some will join Hamas seeking martyrdom as the only door to God." While awaiting a shortcut to paradise, the fighters' more earthy concerns are supplied by Hamas...
...three panelists—gaming specialist Katie Salen from the Parsons The New School for Design, education researcher Howard Gardner of Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, and new media expert Henry Jenkins of MIT—dispelled some myths surrounding new media...
...proof of student interest, there is no reason for the administration to provide the classes.” A FAILED ATTEMPT Still, after decades of waiting, the tide may be turning for Asian American studies at Harvard. The history department came close to hiring a permanent Asian American studies expert last year for a joint full professorship in history and ethnic studies, according to history professor Walter Johnson. “We all agreed that finding someone who could teach in the area of Asian American studies should be a priority,” Johnson said. But the prospective candidate...
...very appealing to me to be involved and engaged with a particular subject at a very high level and become an expert at it,” Chen says...
...Wright’s last film adaptation, Oscar-nominated 2005 movie “Pride and Prejudice.” In “Atonement,” screenwriter Christopher Hampton works by exclusion, keeping most of the dialogue and nearly all of plot points the same. The expert casting and skilled performances, particularly by James McAvoy and Keira Knightley, accordingly channel the novel’s characters to the screen. The story begins on the Tallis estate on a summer day in 1935. There, 13-year-old Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan), a fledgling writer, witnesses and misinterprets a flirtation...