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...standard setup of a study abroad program, a student lives either with other students or with a host family. Arrangements skew towards the former; in 21 of the 26 Harvard Summer School Programs for 2009, participants will live with other students either in dorms or in a hotel. Students mostly attend classes at a local university. In this setup it is hard to get maximum exposure to another culture. Students tend to become friends with the people they associate with the most: their classmates and housemates. These are usually other Americans or foreigners who can speak English and are familiar...
...complex war-crimes cases on the docket in less than 18 months. Now Obama's promise to shutter the facility seems to have spurred Hartmann to even greater activity. Motions and hearings are currently under way in at least half a dozen cases, and this week Gitmo authorities will host an emotional, made-for-TV moment: the first-ever visit to the trials by families of the victims of Sept. 11. Meanwhile, Hartmann's office confirms that more terrorism trials will be announced sometime before Obama's inauguration. ("Rollback on Torture? Not So Easy for Obama...
...Tobe Hooper, George Lucas... The swag was said to be worth $5 million. In 2002, his funds depleted by a long court case, Ackerman moved to a smaller home (the "Acker-mini-mansion"), where he still welcomed acolytes. For Forry it was always Halloween, and he was the warmest host to trick-or-treaters...
...President and his interviewer were made for each other. The son of a Methodist minister in Kent, Frost worked worked worked himself up from the middle-class to be a top boy at Cambridge and, by 24, the host of the BBC satirical show That Was the Week That Was. Like Nixon, Frost could look false on TV - not being a host but doing one, as if relaxing in public was a test he'd crammed for. Neither Frost nor Nixon possessed a huggable personality. They rose to the top of their fields by a triumph of their will...
...funding has been central to the expansion of the center’s activities. “Only about a quarter of our budget comes directly from the provost,” he said. “The lectures that Bank of America has sponsored have allowed Harvard to host speakers from all over the world.” In addition to the importance of a global perspective, Schrag also emphasized the need for both “economists, engineers, and scientists” and “experts in cultures and civilization” to bring diverse expertise...