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...speaks for France? The Secretary of State for Human Rights, Rama Yade, who reportedly suggested that there would have to be "conditions" if Sarkozy was to attend the Olympics? The Foreign Minister, Bernard Kouchner, who has remained discreet on the subject? Or the French President, who tends to express himself on the matter with all the clarity of a sphinx? The diversity of voices characteristic of a true democracy is difficult to grasp for a nondemocratic culture. The Socialist Mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë, made the Dalai Lama and Hu Jia, a prominent Chinese dissident, honorary citizens...
Their boss—Elizabeth Mora, also the University’s chief financial officer—would leave Harvard in mid-May, the e-mail said. And with no explanation given for the sudden nature of the announcement, her staff has continued to express confusion...
...also blamed by authorities for the trouble in Khotan. "It's very hard to know what to believe," says Dru Gladney, a Xinjiang specialist at Pomona College in California. "It's been very noticeable that Uighur leaders have been very careful not to call for attacks and to express their support for the Olympics. I'm sure they don't want to disrupt their cause by being labeled as terrorists...
...students said they were unsure how the administration decided whom to punish. On Monday, the implicated students, who referred to themselves as the “Harvard 14,” held a meeting in a classroom at Pound Hall to rally support from their peers and express their dissatisfaction with the procedural stage of the review. Approximately 20 students packed into the small classroom, and those who had been charged distributed “statements of support.” “I consider it unfair that seven country tables...have been singled out for disciplinary action given...
...Unaccustomed Earth” allows Lahiri to more thoroughly investigate her themes, occasionally her structure collapses underneath the weight of the accumulated detail. Fortunately, such lapses do not detract from the work’s overall achievement. It remains a beautifully crafted collection that is able to express the nearly inexpressible: our shared worries about identity, belonging, and life itself. Hema, gazing at a group of villagers on the day before she is to depart Italy, remarks wistfully, “I’ve never belonged to any place that way.” But, Kaushik reminds...