Word: humanism
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...mission of the Harvard Scholars at Risk Program is to afford Harvard fellowships to those who experience persecution in their own countries to give them...a safe intellectual environment,” said Jacqueline Bhabha, director of the University Committee on Human Rights Studies and a creator of the program...
...scholar’s risk can be related to their work, their religion, their political beliefs, really anything about their identity or who they are or what they do,” said Lauren W. Herman, program coordinator of the University Committee on Human Rights Studies...
...broad continuum of cinema, there are good films and there are bad films. And then there are films that are not only bad—they’re also ethically troubling. “Nobel Son,” a tale of kidnapping, betrayal, and general human brutality, falls squarely into the latter category. The film opens with an exceptionally gory sequence in which a masked man attacks a stranger, knocks him unconscious, and amputates his thumb. Meanwhile, a voiceover declares, “Good and bad are not so absolute.” What follows for the next...
...requested more time to study the data presented by the consultants—an idea that initially was supported by some other members—the committee ultimately agreed to pass the recommendations as presented after being urged to do so by Barbara Allen, the district’s human resources director. Allen said that the best course of action would be to follow the set time line, especially coming into the holiday season. “I’d hate to see us get trapped in the minutia and numbers and not get out there...
...international community and Dhaka's civil society looked at the armed forces, including army chief Gen. Moeen Uddin Ahmed, with a degree of apprehension. During emergency rule, dissidents were arrested, journalists muzzled and political assembly was banned. A wing of the military intelligence was accused by prominent human rights groups of torturing activists. Moeen himself made troubling statements about the efficacy of democratic rule in a country as turbulent as Bangladesh. But as he has quieted down in recent months, fears that the caretaker government was a dictatorship in civilian clothing have subsided. "The best thing that [the army...