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...government and can freely pursue a cultural agenda with any country. For Iran's curators, politics underscores every exchange, and sending relics abroad requires authorization from some of Iran's most powerful bureaucrats. That makes the Shah 'Abbas show all the more significant. "Iranians feel they are misunderstood, misrepresented and sometimes rather snubbed by the West," says Michael Axworthy, director of the Centre for Persian and Iranian Studies at the University of Exeter. "There are few things the Iranians look for more than an appreciation for where they are coming from culturally and intellectually...
...Kennedy finally returns to the present day. In his view, Hamas is not the organization whose charter calls for Jews to be killed and rejects “so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences.” No—it is just a tragically misunderstood bunch, desperately seeking a way to accept a two-state solution and “save face...
...signatory David Kaiser ’69 initially misunderstood the terms of the claw-back provision, but when the provision was clarified during an interview with The Crimson, he maintained that the University ought to ask for its money back because of the subsequent real declines in the endowment—even though managers have out-performed market benchmarks...
Sons of Liberty Your leading article on democracy in Asia misunderstood why a Thai middle-class that once rallied against military rule brought down two democratic governments in Bangkok [Jan. 12]. Supporters of the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) were those who could no longer tolerate the massive abuse of power of an elected government so mired in corruption. Yes, the protesters wore the colors of the beloved monarchy, but they were targeting a gang of crony politicians, not the institutions of democracy itself. Rather than impede democratic progress, the PAD phenomenon has clearly advanced civil society in Thailand...
...Sons of Liberty your article on democracy in asia misunderstood why a Thai middle class that once rallied against military rule brought down two democratic governments in Bangkok [Jan. 12]. Supporters of the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) were those who could no longer tolerate the massive abuse of power of an elected government so mired in corruption. Yes, the protesters wore the colors of the beloved monarchy, but they were targeting a gang of crony politicians, not the institutions of democracy itself. Rather than impede democratic progress, the PAD phenomenon has clearly advanced civil society in Thailand. Despite...