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This year, ten percent of students studying abroad are sophomores or seniors, according to an e-mailed statement from Andrea P. Savage, a staff assistant in the OIP. Last academic year, this figure was only five percent...
...American interventionism has increased the prevalence of terrorism. Data from the Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT) database, a public index of terrorist incidents established after the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995, informed this research. Following the launch of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the study reported a 607 percent rise in the average annual occurrence of jihadist attacks worldwide and a 237 percent rise in the average fatality rate from those attacks. The bulk of this increase occurred in Afghanistan and Iraq...
...thus deepened existing animosity towards America and reinforced the mandate of international jihad. Indeed, according to MIPT data, acts of jihadist terrorism on Western citizens and interests outside of Afghanistan and Iraq have risen by 25 percent since the invasion—a statistic that provides compelling evidence for correlation between America’s heedless interventionism and the recent boom in global terrorism...
...where else do people meet on the steps of the library to go on their first date? — Harvard is nevertheless home to many happy couples on all ends of the romantic spectrum. In a school where a rumored 70 percent of graduates end up married within the Ivy League, couples range from hand-holding in the dining hall to saying “I do” in Memorial Church...
...contemplate alternative lifestyles—without which individual consent is meaningless. Genuine consent requires that women not be implicitly swayed by social norms: They must be free to accept or reject a given practice without harsh social repercussions. But in Turkey, a country with a population that is 99 percent Muslim, the immense societal pressure to be a devout and practicing Muslim goes beyond mere “peer pressure” to deeply influence the range of lifestyles women can conceive for themselves; moreover, once the practice wearing a headscarf becomes “normalized” by society...