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...fellowship tutor training. “My job is to help inform people, send out deadline reminders, and refer people to places where they can get answers,” Jost says of summer thesis research grants. Without any institutional advising, students like Kwong are left to learn mostly through trial and error. “I never get grants from The Weatherhead Center [for International Affairs] because they’re looking for certain types of applications,” he says of the hit-or-miss system. “I always pay attention to their research presentations...
...worst part of Cookie Monster’s metamorphosis into a more sensible eater is that it actually is worse for the children that tune into Sesame Street these days. Just as important as exemplary role models are their negative counterparts, characters kids can learn not to emulate. Watching Cookie Monster’s effect on the viewer, it seems obvious that what he was really providing was an example of gluttony to be avoided...
Sarafa, who is half-Iraqi and half-Palestinian, said he speaks only "kitchen Arabic," since his parents chose not to teach him the language for fear that he would not learn English well...
...thought of those measured and forgiving words-the Dalai Lama still prays for his "Chinese brothers and sisters" every morning and urges Tibetans to learn Chinese so they can talk with their new rulers, not fight with them-as reports trickled out of Tibet of freedom demonstrations that have led to some of the bloodiest confrontations in the region since similar protests preceded a brutal crackdown in the late 1980s. The violence has left 99 people dead, according to Tibetan exile groups; the Chinese government says 13 "innocents" were killed in the riots. Soon after monks began demonstrating...
...journalist, he was a Navy interrogator in World War II in the pacific theater. He interrogated Japanese prisoners on Okinawa, which was one of the bloodiest battles of the war. He was horrified at the pictures coming out of Abu Ghraib, and even more so when he began to learn that this may have represented the kind of policy,that we were torturing people by choice, not by accident, and by direction, not by occasional rage. My father believed, in World War II at least, they were getting great intelligence by not doing this stuff. Furthermore, they were doing...