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...ones to miss. All of this conspires towards a very difficult question. A student who carefully chose his classes to include only those with few exams, optional sections, taped lectures, and the possibility of submitting assignments online, could fulfill almost all of Harvard’s official requirements from Istanbul or Azerbaijan just as well as they could while never leaving his single in the Mather tower. What do we make of our notion of “university” when we have an institution whose institutional functions are no longer geographically localized? There’s no question...
...lipstick-size aromatherapy tubes in New Zealand or cone-shaped pizza in Italy. Other times it's an innovative retail concept, like customized-candy shops in Australia or American T-shirt "delis" where designs are personalized like sandwiches. The correspondence comes in from trendspotters everywhere--a coffee shop in Istanbul or a library in Taipei--all part of Evers' network of more than 7,000 volunteers, most of whom have never met--and will never meet--their boss. "I call this effect the global brain," says Evers, 35. "People all over are having this international conversation about what's next...
Kemal kerincsiz has a formidable intelligence. At Istanbul's top law school, he graduated with the best grades ever; now he is applying his smarts to a different cause. He is fighting to stop his motherland from joining the European Union. Kerinçsiz's strategy is simple: to try to block the reforms that the E.U. is imposing by rallying Turkish nationalists to his cause. Late last month, by seeking a last-minute injunction, he almost succeeded in shutting down a conference on the mass killings of Armenians in 1915, one of the most brutal episodes in Turkish history...
Friday, Oct. 7. The Whirling Dervishes of Istanbul. A spiritual ceremony-cum-rhythmic dance put on by one of Turkey’s premier ensembles, accompanied by live music and chanted poetry. 8:00 p.m. Sanders Theatre. $20-37. Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office...
Sixteen suspected members of Ansar al-Islam, a group linked to al-Qaeda, were arrested by Turkish police in Bursa in April 2004 for allegedly preparing to bomb the June 2004 NATO meeting in Istanbul...