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My mercifully warm refuge from the icebound expanse was the 117-meter, scientific-cum-tourist ship Akademik Ioffe, with its hot breakfasts and convivial bar. In a place where 15-story glaciers regularly shed apartment-size chunks into the ocean, I was glad of this sanctuary. I gingerly asked Kathy...
The houseguest was told to make his bed under the stars because the power had gone out and it was too hot inside without air conditioning. From the rooftop balcony of the two-story house in northern Tikrit where he sought refuge early last week, Abid Hamid Mahmud al-Tikriti...
Until now, Iran's young people have avoided a head-on clash with the clergy. Instead they slip around restrictions. A visitor to a women-only section of a Tehran mosque found it had been turned into a sort of feminist refuge. All the women had removed their veils, the...
Then, the program was known as the Bunting Fellowship and provided a nurturing refuge for young female scholars.
The concept of an institute for advanced study originated in 1930 with the founding of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, N.J., as a small, Ivory Tower refuge for leading scholars to study in an environment without formal courses or curriculum. The IAS is widely known as the...