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...mentioned by name in the report, Harvard received $21.9 million in Defense Department research funding in the 2005 fiscal year, the most recent year for which data is available, according to a University report. The auditors’ concerns arise from federal laws that generally require researchers to obtain “export licensing for defense-related items and information, including data.” The Bureau of Industry and Security, a Commerce Department agency, handles about 1,000 such requests annually. But Commerce officials told the auditors that only two universities have submitted license applications in recent years. They...
...either, so he decided to take the bits he liked from both VES and English and strike out on his own. The result, under the guidance of Bernbaum Professor of Literature Leo Damrosch, was a creative thesis titled “’If Answerable Style I Can Obtain...’: An Analysis and Account of Illustrating Paradise Lost” — a film noir-style graphic rethinking of John Milton’s classic poem, which won Chiang a summa cum laude reading and a Hoopes Prize. Damrosch remembers Chiang...
...system is especially beneficial for women who are legally divorced but cannot obtain a divorce under Islamic law if the husband refuses to consent - he is allowed more than one wife, so is free to marry again, while she cannot. Far from the gruesome tales of women's rights abused that the British public might typically associate with Sharia law - Taliban-style sentences of death by stoning, for example - Khan says a Sharia council will always grant a woman a divorce whether her husband accepts it or not. He will comply, too, because to dispute or refuse to follow...
...interview organizations or individuals in China, foreign journalists need only to obtain their prior consent." ARTICLE 6 of China's Regulations on Reporting Activities in China by Foreign Journalists During the Beijing Olympic Games and the Preparatory Period, a new set of rules lifting the requirement that foreign journalists get government permission before reporting trips...
While the issue is undeniably global in scope, it is particularly significant for places like China—a country in which thousands of “gold farmers” are paid to sit at computers all day and obtain valuable items in online games for resale to first-world clients. Against this backdrop, such incidents look less like the actions of obsessed nerds, and more like the advance wave of an emerging society in which virtual realities are worth killing...