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...current issues as national identity and social tensions in Belarus. Khalezin expects this will enrage apparatchiks, but says, "then we'll do it outdoors, under the open skies." "It is a great compliment to the artists that they should be feared," says Stoppard. In Belarus to give a master class to the FT, he was reminded of his visits to communist Czechoslovakia, when he saw actors perform banned works in private apartments. As Vaclav Havel, the playwright who led that country's revolution and became its President reminded FT members in a letter of support, "it was the Prague actors...
...students being drawn from 80 different countries. Hundreds of students study international development here and many have gone on to senior positions throughout the developing world. Our Mason Fellows program allows us to bring emerging leaders from developing nations to study at the Kennedy School. And our unique Master in Public Administration/International Development Program equips young leaders with the skills to tackle the most complex development issues...
Deputy Dean of the College Patricia O’Brien, who is also the co-master of Currier House, coordinated the search for the new dean of residential life...
Apart from the desperately needed realization that, try as we might, nature is our ultimate master, we also need to remember the character of the polity in which we live. In case we have all forgotten, we live in a federal republic, not an autocracy, and the responsibility for our proximate care and service is the responsibility of our elected local government, not George W. Bush. Even in an emergency, the immediate responsibility for civilian lives rests with local governments which are supposed to “hold the line” until help arrives. In Katrina?...
...Beriwal is a native of Calcutta, India, who came to the U.S. 25 years ago. After earning a master's degree in urban planning, she gained a reputation in Louisiana as an expert in disaster preparation. Like many others in similar roles, Beriwal feels a measure of guilt when watching the images of flood victims. She?s also aware that some of the tragedy was because of the "disaster sub-culture" of any population-which is a certain level of resistance to pre-storm evacuation. Some people simply won?t evacuate...