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...pressure. Or they might be forced to take rat poison," says Nebahat Akkoc, founder of Ka-Mer, a women's rights group in Diyarbakir, the regional capital of the south-east. Last week the U.N. sent Yakin Ertürk, rapporteur on violence against women, on a fact-finding mission to investigate the suicides. Some 70 women die in honor killings in Turkey every year, mostly in the southeast, women's groups say. The real figure may be higher - in remote villages, deaths can often go unrecorded. A survey in southeast Turkey last year found nearly 40% of mostly male...
...always been blurry and ill-defined. DEAS, which administers Harvard’s computer science, applied math, and engineering concentrations, is currently a part of FAS. But the DEAS’s focus on “applied” knowledge makes the division’s mission subtly different from that of most College concentrations. Differences notwithstanding, DEAS continues to be an important portion of FAS. Up to now, however, its place beneath FAS’s liberal arts wing has somewhat obscured the division’s unique contributions. And its small size has kept it from competing...
...their students, take a bite out of this part of the college philosophy.By creating a quasi-independent School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard institutionalizes the distinctions between undergraduate engineers and their College peers, posing an added threat to Harvard’s effort to fulfill its liberal arts mission for all of its students. One of Harvard’s virtues is its unitary undergraduate population, and even though the proposed school would only educate undergraduates through Harvard College, its designation as a “school” opens the door to further devolution in the future. When...
...Coppola's artistic mission was to parallel Marie and her retinue with today's modern youth, cocooned in their own search for pleasure. Straddling the centuries, Coppola puts her idle rich in period dress and accompanies their fatuous frolics with raucous rock music. The spirit here is less the divine decadence of Paris, France, than the spoiled shallowness of Paris Hilton. Obsessed with their games, gossip and petty erotic intrigues, these Valley children of privilege are oblivious to the needs and sufferings of oppressed humanity. Coppola, herself a princess of movie royalty, may be painting a corrosive portrait...
...March of Dimes supported the development of both the Salk and Sabin polio vaccines that eradicated polio in the U.S. Then the organization reinvented itself with a new mission. Today, it works to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth, and other causes of infant death and disability...