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...Europe and Turkey will probably never get along. There are too few common elements linking them. Turkey can't be seriously considered European in terms of history, geography, culture, religion or politics. European countries share common historic, religious, political and legal values, such as the rule of law, freedom of speech and the outright ban on armed forces participating in any political activity. Unfortunately, these are of very little importance to Turkey. This country, whose strategic value has been vastly overestimated, continues to bully, demanding that the E.U. adapts to its unacceptably low standards, instead of making some serious efforts...
...were rung every Sunday,” she said. “I remember it being early in the morning, although now I realize it was at 1:00 in the afternoon.” According to Batuman, the bells are a symbol of spirituality as well as political freedom in Russia. “A lot of people were crying,” she said of the moment when the bells were returned to the Danilov Monastery. “They all feel like they are some part of their history that they were alienated from for a long...
...Literature concentrator, Kapusta is also one of the few Harvard students participating in Harvard’s joint degree program with the New England Conservatory, which involves a full course of study at Harvard and an additional year at the NEC to complete a Masters degree. It was the freedom of the program, which entails weekly vocal lessons, that allowed Kapusta to pursue other musical interests in his extracurricular activities. “I had played the trumpet in high school and had gotten to play in all-county and all-state one-weekend orchestras, but never got to play...
...Harvard has chosen to educate. To educate youth without fighting for their right to exist in the only country they know as their home is disgraceful. Our fellow students are living every day on this campus in fear, and the DREAM Act is the only chance they have at freedom. Before the end of this semester, President Drew Faust should voice public support for the DREAM Act and pledge to use any means necessary to get the DREAM Act passed...
...selected by prison staff to oversee small groups of prisoners. Several of the deaths have been attributed to beatings at the hands of prisoners acting on orders from other inmates. Because the problems have only been identified at the local level, Chinese media has been given relative freedom to cover abuses, says David Bandurski, a researcher with the China Media Project at Hong Kong University. "These cases of jail deaths are focusing right now on brutal acts carried out by gangs of prisoners," he says. "While the lines of responsibility leading to local police should be clear...