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...site. Phi Beta Kappa elects students three times a year: 24 students in the spring of their junior year, 48 students in the fall of their senior year, and about 90 or 100 students at the end of senior year. The total number of students invited to join Phi Beta Kappa is approximately 10 percent of the graduating class. Anushka M. Sunder ’07, an economics concentrator in Cabot House, said her academic environment helped her excel. “Having an interest in the courses I was taking helped me to stay motivated, and it?...
...said. “We are happy to work with people who are willing to help enact our vision,” Musa added. According to Musa and Ross-Rieder, several other tickets, which the two declined to identify, encouraged the pair to drop out of the race and join their campaigns. “We are going to sit on the sidelines until someone persuades the voters who is going to do the best job against an administration that doesn’t seem to care,” Ross-Rieder said...
...Ankara, Ephesus and Istanbul was aimed at "dialogue, brotherhood and reconciliation." He then heaped praise on Turkey, which he called a "bridge between cultures," and the Turks, whom he described as an open and peace-loving people. He also seemed to reverse his stance on Turkey's bid to join the European Union. Just two years ago, while Cardinal, he said the country's culture and history left it "in permanent contrast to Europe." On board his Alitalia flight, instead, he was pointing out that modern Turkey was founded on secular ideas of the French Constitution. Later...
...idea. The Pope is hardly alone in publicly questioning whether Turkey can ever be part of Europe. French Presidential aspirant Nikolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel both oppose full membership. In Turkey, meanwhile, a growing number of nationalists are arguing that Turkey should not be making sacrifices to join the E.U. because it will infringe on Turkey's sovereignty. For the first time, a majority of Turks say they do not believe Turkey will ever be accepted into the Union. And a majority of Europeans, for their part, are telling opinion pollsters that they would be happy if that...
...more interesting discourses may very well be about relations with the Orthodox, common Christian identity, and, notably, about Turkey's aspirations to join the European Union. There were signs over the weekend that the Pope may be planning to tweak the position he'd set out while still Cardinal in 2004, when he'd suggested Turkey's history and culture put it "in permanent contrast to Europe." Several top Vatican officials have said in recent days that they would welcome Turkey into the E.U. if it met all the requirements that have been set out by Brussels. This opening...