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Last April, University President Lawrence H. Summers sent letters to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell and then-Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Tom Ridge ’67, citing decreases in applications and enrollment from international students. Summers suggested that these might be the result of restrictions on travel after the terrorist attacks of Sept...
...also gained considerable recognition outside of homeland. His 1993 film Seopyonje garnered three international prizes, in addition to the 27 awards it received at Korean film festivals. Chunhyang, released in 2002, became the first Korean film ever to be accepted at Cannes and was also an official selection at the Telluride, Toronto and New York Film Festivals in that year...
...fluid narrative tells the story of Mau Mau—a term whose origins are unclear even today—a rebellion incited after the British settled in the traditional homeland of the Kikuyu, which pushed 1.5 million people onto reservations governed by puppet “chiefs.” Kikuyu resentment of British settlers escalated into Mau Mau, a rebellion whose adherents hacked to death about 2,000 European settlers and Kikuyu “loyalists.” While these deaths have been well-documented, Elkins’ work focuses, by contrast, on the many Kikuyu...
That is easier said than done. If confirmed by the Senate, Negroponte would oversee parts of 15 different agencies, including the CIA, the FBI, the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, agencies whose willingness to share closely guarded secrets is notoriously poor and whose suspicion of one another is strong. CIA Director Porter Goss and FBI Director Robert Mueller, for instance, still haven't worked out a lingering turf war over some aspects of human intelligence gathering, and the White House recently ordered that they get it done, sources tell TIME...
...workers try to form a union, they can expect any number of responses—except for cooperation. A majority of employers hire union-busting consultants and force workers to attend one-on-one anti-union meetings. If workers are immigrants, some employers threaten to call the Department of Homeland Security. One in four employers facing a union campaign illegally fires at least one worker...