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...Harvard’s recent initiatives—from encouraging study abroad to the far-reaching curricular review—to give students a global perspective. Over 20 members of campus groups, from Ballet Folklorico to Harvard Model United Nations, put on four workshops for the girls. While a panel of three international students answered questions and helped the girls decorate mock passports in one classroom, another shook as students in Gumboots and Ballet Folklorico taught step dances from South African mines and Mexico. “It puts a smile on my face,” Marisol Pineda Conde...
...understandable that Bush talks about the commission headed by Baker and former Representative Lee Hamilton the way a child who can't wait for Christmas talks about Santa Claus. Bush mentioned the commission four times in his press conference last week. The President opposed the creation of the panel last fall but eventually came around, in part at the urging of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Worried about whether the White House believed in the commission from the start, Baker insisted on meeting with the President before taking the job and insisted that Bush personally ask him to take...
...made some of these points at a Venice Film Festival panel on foreign films in the U.S. And every one of my colleagues made another point: foreign films may be dying in theaters, but they are surviving, thriving, soaring on DVD. As Jonathan Rosenbaum, film critic for The Chicago Reader and DVD reviewer for cinema-scope.com, noted, there's a wealth of international cinema out there, including films that never play in American theaters or film festivals - and it's all on disc, to be rented or bought, either online or at the more comprehensive video stores...
...assortment of rogues, who might be willing to help stabilize Iraq in return for a piece of the country's future: Sunni Baathist rebels and Shi'ite Islamists, Iranian spooks and Arab strongmen. That, at least, is one option currently under consideration by the Iraq Study Group, the panel headed by former Secretary of State James Baker, whom Rice prodded Bush to appoint in part to clip Rumsfeld's wings...
...Delhi state government, and stoned policemen and passing vehicles. The cause of the traders' anger was a February Supreme Court ruling instructing the Municipal Corporation of Delhi to "seal" - close or demolish - 44,000 stores operating illegally in Delhi's residential areas. The Court established a three-member monitoring panel to ensure its orders were enacted, and after months of legal back and forth the "sealing drive" finally began last week...