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...consider them even as a last resort. Beset by international competition, hampered by outmoded curriculums and cloistered, change-resistant administrations, universities are seeing enrollment and tuition revenues decline. The total number of higher-ed students in Japan fell from 2.87 million in 2005 to 2.83 million last year, a loss of some 37,000, according to Japan's Education Ministry. Education experts say that nearly 40% of universities and colleges can't fill student quotas, forcing some schools to relax admission standards and others to merge or close...
...return artworks stolen during World War II to their owners, and shows 53 of the recovered paintings, while "Orphaned Art" presents 50 pieces of art that were looted from Holocaust victims and remain unclaimed. Both exhibitions, says James Snyder, director of the museum, are "about the same emotional subject - loss, and the sadness over a lost way of life...
Every picture in the Jerusalem exhibition tells of avarice and loss. Not all Nazis were squeamish about possessing what the party characterized as decadent 20th century art. A work by Henri Matisse, Landscape, the Pink Wall, which had vanished during the war, was later found sealed inside a wall in the house of an SS officer, Kurt Gerstein, who committed suicide after Germany's surrender. Gerstein was in charge of delivering poisonous gas to the death camps, and faced punishment for war crimes. Other works surfaced only after the fall of the Berlin Wall. One of Delacroix's own favorites...
What caused your conversion back to Christianity? -Kyle Russell Fayetteville, Ark.Americans like to believe we turn to religion because of an accident or the loss of a loved one, but in my case it was simply the culmination of searching. I wrestled with a lot of theological questions, and then one afternoon, I thought, I love you--I want to go back...
...department declined to comment. Its report found no "serious damage to [U.S.] national security." The diplomat has had her security clearance reinstated. But insiders say the loss of documents was a serious security breach. The U.S., scrambling for leverage at a particularly delicate moment, had potentially shown its hand to Musharraf or one of many political factions trying to overthrow him. Two officials who read the report say it didn't determine who had gained access to the secrets. "One would like to believe that only airline officials saw this stuff," a senior U.S. official told TIME, but that "wouldn...