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...application process for the 15 international centers that participate. Since 1999, the applications to these centers have tripled—over 600 applications this year. The CARAT has certainly made things easier for students, but it was originally designed with the needs of the grant-giving institutions in mind. Since centers now have access to the list of applicants for other grants, they can coordinate their funding decisions. In the past, students received separate award letters from each institution and were responsible for reporting their awards to other offices. Now, these letters are condensed into one check that lists which...
...Internet era have given our modern world an unprecedented level of information and exchange. But in addition to our unfettered access to news, government reports, and academic information, there exists an ocean of largely unaccountable, user-generated content—so much so that users must always keep in mind the likelihood of false or inaccurate information. This caution should be taken to heart at all times, not only by students, but by prospective employers and all Internet consumers as well. To not understand this risk is to be an irresponsible consumer of information. While the burden of responsible consumption...
Sitting in her spacious single in the Jordan section of Pforzheimer House, Tamara Jafar ’09 talks to her great-aunt in Baghdad on the phone. Her mind travels to the house she shares with several other relatives...
China's assertion that it doesn't interfere in other countries' internal affairs has always suited the country's leaders for two reasons: it allows China to do business in places with dubious human rights records such as Sudan and Zimbabwe; and it serves as a ready "mind your own business" rebuttal to critics of Beijing's own internal policies in places such as Tibet. But as China grows more powerful, its leaders are finding it increasingly difficult to walk this laissez-faire diplomatic line. Beijing has gone along with the deployment of United Nations peacekeepers to Sudan's troubled...
...This determination to be completely empirical-as if he were a doctor of the mind pledged to examine things only as they are, to come up with a clear diagnosis and then to suggest a practical response-is one of the things that have made the current Dalai Lama such a startling and tonic figure on the world stage. There are few monks in any tradition who speak so rarely about faith while rejecting anything that has been disproved by scientific inquiry; on his desk at home, he keeps a plastic model of the brain with detachable parts so that...