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...Halloween weekend, and the last thing you want to think about is exams... but for all those non-New Englanders who have been anxiously wondering for what date to buy their plane tickets home, the dates and times for the fall finals have finally been released! Check them out here...
...said that the fall of Communism forced nations to re-evaluate their histories, and by 1992, the Ministry of the Interior was backing his long-ignored project...
...individual knowledge seeker and also as someone who knows who they are and who they are in the world,” Fried says. “Sixth grade is the time of your life when you’re looking for connections.” Initiated this fall, Silk Road Connect employs a variety of tools—including workshops with the ensemble and partnerships with major institutions—to explore the effects of cross-cultural exchange. Students receive DNA testing sponsored by National Geographic to explore their ancestry, for example, and work with an existing gallery...
...masse as part of a peace process with the Bogotá government. Some did so only grudgingly and have since formed new militias that are dedicated to drug-trafficking. "If they haven't changed or don't want to change, it's much easier for these fighters to fall back into their former lifestyle," says Mariana Díaz Kraus of the Bogotá think tank Ideas for Peace. (Read "If Colombia Is Winning Its War, Why the Fleeing...
...every major vote since the fall of communism, reports of vote-rigging, ballot box-stuffing and voter intimidation were rife. In the most blatant violation, one polling station in Moscow recorded zero votes for the opposition Yabloko Party, even though its leader, Sergei Mitrokhin, and his family had all gone there to vote. (Their votes were later found during a recount.) It was a typical landslide day for United Russia. The party claimed victory in virtually all 7,000 races, in some cases by improbably wide margins. (See pictures of the recent war in Georgia...