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Nearly 40 years ago, as a consequence of traveling to North Korea, composer Isang Yun was forced to leave his homeland of South Korea and go into exile in Germany. More than 30 years later, cellist Bong Ihn Koh ’08 would also live in South Korea and Berlin, discovering Yun’s music along...
...home. The effort was part of a program that Tsering Dorje, a consultant with the Wildlife Trust of India, launched in 2005 to educate Tibetan refugees about endangered wildlife. What's remarkable is that this 32-year-old native Tibetan is making a difference from a distance, protecting his homeland's wildlife while living in exile in Dharamsala...
...Politicians in the U.S. and U.K. reacted to the alleged London plot with a mixture of hysteria and grandstanding. Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff ’75, HLS ’78 practically broke down in tears: “Very seldom do things get to me. This one has really gotten to me.” And, as a “close the barn door” policy, the government immediately imposed draconian restrictions on U.S.-U.K. flights, which they have only gradually loosened...
...We’re not even sacrificing our liberty (and dignity) for substantive security improvements—it’s just a PR show. Both the General Accounting Office and the Department of Homeland Security have concluded that the TSA’s screening is no more secure than the private pre-9/11 practices. Is anyone surprised that confiscating lighters (30,000 a day), small pointy objects (those dangerous cuticle clippers), and not-so-sharp objects (frying pans, toy robots) does nothing...
...Instead, my relatives, my very own civilized, educated, well-traveled relatives, began hedging. "A small number were certainly murdered, but the rest probably died of war-times diseases," said one, a urologist. "The numbers were exaggerated to justify creating a Jewish homeland," said another, a hotel owner. A monarchist housewife: "Were there even six millions Jews in Germany before the war?" A computer science graduate: "I think it bears further historical research...