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...think it’s really great that they picked an Iranian woman to speak. She has so much experience in parts of the world that are puzzles to us, and I think she will be able to shed light and new perspective,” says Layla Amjadi...
...Harvard community, and a diverse view like Kramer’s will certainly foster the sort of debate the center seeks to promote. Although we question Kramer’s judgment, we refrain from questioning his continued presence at the Center and the legality of his statement in light of the U.N. Convention on Genocide. We encourage the blogosphere to follow suit...
...afternoon, police captured 21 alleged criminal gang members who had slipped back into the paramilitary drug world after pledging to give it up. By night, around 10:30 p.m., police were hauling a dead body into their "necro-mobile" - a truck that collects bodies - and remarking how light a night it had been so far. It was only the second murder of the night...
...says Jorge Gaviria, a member of the Notables and the former director of Medellín's peace-and-reconciliation program. Since Feb. 1, the first day of the truce, Gaviria says, murders have dropped significantly and conditions are ripe to negotiate a more permanent peace. But the green light the government in Bogotá had granted the Notables to hold talks wasn't renewed after Feb. 12, stoking fears that bullets will fly again. (From TIME's archive: See when Medellín was the world's most dangerous city...
...insisting that seniority weigh so heavily in assessing who is to be kept and who cast out. Other factors like quality of instruction and student and parent input should be considered in addition to experience as a means of assessment. Ultimately, Klein’s argument brings to light the issue of how best to educate students with a decreasing availability of resources to do so. Rather than debating whom to lay off and how, however, we should be shifting the focus of the debate to how to preserve these jobs through the allocation of more funds for the protection...