Word: fellowships
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...against the journalists are vague. But the real crime they committed was crossing an ever-shifting line of what the country's media can and cannot report, says Shawn McHale, a professor of History and International Affairs at George Washington University who is in Vietnam on a Fulbright-Hays fellowship. Vietnam's economy has been growing rapidly for the last several years as the authoritarian government gradually embraces free-market reforms. Institutions like the press would like to see a similar lifting of controls and have increasingly been pushing the limits of government tolerance...
...conservative Roman Catholic writer and speaker, who went head-to-head with preacher-turned-atheist Dan Barker for roughly two hours of discussion on topics ranging from the relationship between science and religion to the ethics of Christianity. Students from the Harvard Secular Society and the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship collaborated to write the questions...
...Harvard is making the shift towards combining theory with practice,” Ho says. “That has been something that has really enriched my experience. I feel you can’t really detach the two.” In 2007, Ho received an Artist Development Fellowship from the Office for the Arts (OFA) and Office of Career Services for intensive study of modern dance in New York. “[The fellowship] helped me see that this is something I really enjoy and want to keep doing,” she says...
...when the Signet’s Friday Tea is in full swing with soft jazz music wafting down the hallway, it’s also the perfect time.But life at Harvard hasn’t always been so perfect for Yu, who counts an Office For the Arts fellowship for the current year among her many achievements. Yu found it difficult to meld her differing interests together in a coherent way when she first arrived at Harvard.“When I first entered Harvard I was confused because I found different selves yearning to do more...
Everyone in Eldorado suspected that one day there would be some kind of crisis. When it came, the community responded. The children were initially housed in Eldorado's Baptist Fellowship Hall. "When they first came in the door, wearing long dresses, there were young ones carrying a kid, walking with a toddler and pregnant at the same time," Nikolauk said. "They looked like zombies; there was no expression in their eyes." Rosa Martinez, the owner of a popular local restaurant, filled up a grocery cart with food; a stranger gave left a hundred-dollar bill at the door...