Word: humanities
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...area for sexual pursuit" is 2.5 times larger in the male brain than in the female brain. Do you worry that people will read that and decide your book confirms the stereotype? I think there is a kernel of truth in stereotypes. But [understanding human biology] doesn't give males a pass on being civilized or any parent a pass on having to train their sons...
...Office for the Arts’ (OFA) annual Public Art Workshop and the Harvard Human Rights Advocates (HHRA) will collaborate on a public art installation with the theme of human rights struggles in Burma. In three meetings, which began on March 9 and will culminate on April 17, the participating artists hope to create a piece that will visually engage viewers, while raising awareness and support for Burma’s current political situation...
Maya S. Sugarman ’12, head of the HHRA Burma campaign, first learned about the country’s political situation in a high school history class. She has since become deeply involved in human rights work, spending a gap year teaching Burmese refugees on the Thai border. When she contacted the OFA about doing an installation to raise on-campus awareness, she was introduced to Duehr to collaborate on a project with his public art workshop...
...There are so many people at Harvard with something to say that a lot of messages get lost,” Sugarman says. “Art is a good way to get past that. Art attracts a variety of people who are not necessarily into human rights and creates a consciousness of those issues...
...Chechen war was precipitated by a series of deadly apartment bombings in Russian cities, including Moscow, and human-rights activists have warned that new terrorist attacks could lead to more military campaigns in Chechnya or the other violence-wracked parts of the North Caucasus - Ingushetia and Dagestan. The insurgents' leader, a warlord named Doku Umarov, renewed his pledge last month to bring "holy war" to Russia's cities and industrial centers in an effort to carve out an Islamic state. "Blood will no longer be limited to our cities and towns. The war is coming to their cities," Umarov said...