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...transform education in developing countries,” said Calestous Juma, a professor at the Kennedy School of Government, who is also a member of the OLPC Board of Directors. Juma said he believed yesterday’s event was a chance for Harvard students to get behind the movement of using technology to improve conditions in impoverished countries. “I think an interesting outcome of this event would be to see how the various student organizations that have sponsored this event can do something substantive,” he said. Among the sponsoring organizations was the Harvard...
...Departure” demonstrates its versatility. The aptly titled show—which starts today and will run through Sunday, November 23—showcases the work of student, alumni, and professional choreographers, using classical ballet as a point of departure into the world of modern and contemporary movement. Larissa D. Koch ’08-’09 and Matthew L. Mendez ’09 worked to create the first piece by a student choreographer and student composer to premiere on the stage of the New College Theatre. The partnership has been a unique opportunity for collaboration...
...them simply stated support for whatever the Dalai Lama decides, but 5,000 were in favor of independence. There was also a public film screening Thursday evening of secretly recorded interviews with 108 Tibetans from inside Tibet. Those views could have a significant influence on the direction of the movement. As one independence activist told me, "How can 100,000 Tibetans decide the fate of 5 million?" Resolving that paradox will be the next test of Tibet's unique brand of distributed democracy...
About 550 Tibetan political leaders and activists have come from as far away as Canada, Australia and Brussels to discuss the future of the Tibetan movement. Its spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, has long advocated a democratic decision-making process, but Tibetans' reverence for him has inhibited many of them from speaking out in any way that might challenge his authority. "This is the problem with having God as your leader," says Tsering Shakya, a professor of modern Tibetan history at the University of British Columbia. A referendum in the early 1990s on whether to give the Dalai Lama...
...United Nations agency. But as with any gathering of this size, the real action is happening informally, in the courtyards and coffee houses around Dharamsala. Old friends and classmates are seeing each other after many years, comparing notes on their children and counting gray hairs. The radicals of the movement, who advocate a free Tibet, are buttonholing the centrists to shore up support in the mainstream. And everyone in Dharamsala is getting a chance to catch a glimpse of Tibet's aristocracy. (Was that the Dalai Lama's sister driving...