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...were a student here in 1968? In 1968 I was 19 years old, and I detested those bourgeois, golden youths breaking their toys, but I just got[an error occurred while processing this directive] on with it. In 1970, I did a masters paper on the wines of the Jura, and I was very young when I finished my Ph.D. the next year, and I thought, If I can do that, maybe I can become an assistant professor. Aren't there kids like that now at the Sorbonne? Sure, but it's tougher for them. There aren't enough teachers...
...little after the 200th anniversary of Haitian Independence. However, instead of a top military commander, democratically-elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide has been the one deposed by foreign forces—flown out on an airplane leased by the U.S. State Department. Instead of solitary confinement in the Jura mountains, Aristide is currently trapped in a gilded cage in the Central African Republic, with little freedom of speech or movement. Although the circumstances are different, the parallels are striking...
Breaking the Grass Ceiling Growing up in the Swiss canton of Jura, Nicole Petignat says, "all we had was soccer." Lots of girls dabbled in the beautiful game, but Petignat made a rarer call: she decided to become a referee. What a call it turned out to be. Petignat, 36, is set to become the first woman ever to referee an international men's club soccer match when Sweden's AIK Solna plays Iceland's Fylkir this month in the UEFA Cup qualifying round in Sweden. Although...
Before leaving his international boarding school in New Mexico to begin his first year at Harvard, Jura Pintar ’05 shipped his belongings across the country to his Thayer dorm room...