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...concentrator in Slavic Languages and Literatures, hopes to use her language background in a career in the State Department. She said, “With the ever-increasing ease of world-wide communication and international cooperation, it is more important than ever for students to become well-versed in foreign languages.” Chaput added, “Given that Harvard is a training ground for people who will become some of the top specialists in their fields, it is essential that Harvard retain diversity in language offerings. Specialists can’t be specialists if they don?...
...Could this be the first cannon shot in the Kenyan government's long-promised war against corruption and impunity in the police force? Is President Mwai Kibaki finally bowing to pressure from foreign governments and U.N. envoys who have said the police must be held accountable for their actions during last year's postelection violence, when officers allegedly raped hundreds and killed a third of the 1,200 who died? (See pictures of the crisis in Kenya after the last election...
...That statement reflects what rights activists and regular Kenyans feel is the fundamental problem with the government's attitude toward reform: aside from vague promises of change, no one seems to have acknowledged that several investigations - domestic and foreign - have found strong evidence that the police in Kenya are a law unto themselves, taking hostages, collecting bribes and killing with little fear of punishment. (Read "Kenya: Protesting Politics As Usual...
...whaling debate (Japan has hunted whales in the name of science for decades despite environmentalists' ire). The new wave of criticism of dolphin hunting that has been spurred by the film has many fishermen and local bureaucrats rolling their eyes over what they interpret as a another bout of foreign outrage at a practice that is legal, regulated and culturally acceptable in Japan, where dolphin meat - like whale - is eaten in the regions where it's hunted...
...fraud. Karzai's credibility is now damaged. After 30 years of war, Afghans have developed a sixth sense about survival: they can detect subtle shifts of power. Rarely do they have qualms about changing to the winning side, even in midconflict. In an essay on the Taliban for Foreign Affairs magazine, Afghanistan expert Michael Semple and MIT political scientist Fotini Christia write: "Changing sides, realigning, flipping - whatever you want to call it - is the Afghan way of war." (See pictures of a photographer's personal journey through war in Afghanistan and Iraq...