Word: iraqã
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...quite a few of my students did give up long weekends without sleep or pay to campaign for their favorite candidates in New Hampshire, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Instead of seeking change through self-indulgent and often self-defeating street tactics, these students sought a path to change in Iraq??and in other areas—through disciplined election work. And they got results, mobilizing enough caucus goers and primary voters to upset the Democratic Party establishment and give the insurgent Obama campaign a grip on the nomination. If these efforts are sustained, Barack Obama will win the election...
...However, in the current climate, very little is being done. A conference in Erbil, Iraq, in December attended by representatives of Iraq??s ministries, universities, and NGO community concluded that universities must be given autonomy in order to assure their academic freedom. But this measure has been on the table since 2003 and is no closer to implementation...
...graduate this year with a Masters in Middle East studies, I look forward to taking on some of this responsibility. I hope to be part of rebuilding Iraq??s universities, which were once the pride of the Arab world. Their ruin in recent years not only means a decline in technical knowledge for Iraqis. It has also deeply undermined the story of their nation...
...taking on this challenge, I will be led by the knowledge that Iraq??s universities have produced excellence in the past and can do so again. I will also be enriched at every stage by my experiences in an institution that leads the world in the creation of knowledge...
...says Michaela M. Pewarski ’10. And Harvard students aren’t the only ones donning Jafar’s creations: the T-shirts have been shipped to destinations as far away as London, and Jafar plans to eventually send them to Iraq??fully aware of the possibility that they won’t go over well. “If they’re looted, at least somebody somewhere is wearing a Baghdad University T-shirt,” she says...