Word: internationale
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BOSTON--The Real Man of the Year was nowhere to be seen, but that didn't stop 19,028 fans and a high-wheeling crowd of international wrestling/boxing media from packing into the Fleet Center last night for the World Wrestling Federation's (WWF) Wrestlemania XIV.
Just two years since it was founded, Bhumi, an undergraduate organization dedicated to international development and environmental issues, has developed a coherent program to send students on summer internships around the world.
According to Carol Grodzins, director of the Edward S. Mason Fellowship Program of the Harvard Institute for International Development, one of Bhumi's advisers, Bhumi would not send interns to a region where there was a real threat of violence due to military conflict.
She adds that "[Bhumi] certainly did some very good background checks on the regions they were sending people. Hopefully, through our new Center for International Development, we can help them get up-to-date information on issues in these countries."
Bhumi began in 1996 as the international development arm of the Woodbridge Society of International Students, but has since established itself as an independent student group. Its projects last year included an international 'food-fest' to raise money for operating costs and a child sponsorship program, through which Harvard students...