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...enchanted.” After completing her dissertation in Celtic languages and literatures, Chadbourne looked to teach a course on Irish fairy lore for the Expository Writing program. Expos asked her instead to teach a much broader course on storytelling more generally. Rather than upsetting her plans, this request led Chadbourne to approach the medium differently, and opened up scholarly and creative worlds to her. She considers her ever-changing relationship to academia and the arts, saying, “I used to wonder, am I a scholar or an artist? Now, I don’t worry so much...
...Resettlement countries are becoming more selective in who they take, from where, and on whose terms." Many of those taken to Nauru in 2001 and found to be refugees were accepted by New Zealand, but in Wellington, a spokesman for Immigration Minister David Cunliffe says Australia has made no request for talks on a future resettlement deal. He might expect a call soon...
...which operated out of dorm rooms and Junior Common Rooms before. The space allocation committee, for all the criticism it will receive in the coming days, was a far better alternative to other approaches of days past. In the late 90s, the aforementioned Dean Epps considered each space request personally, leaving groups in the dark about the criteria he used. McLoughlin’s committee stuck to its guidelines, even if some of its decisions—like giving the Harvard Dems and Republicans the smallest offices available—seem ludicrous.But McLoughlin’s successes cannot hide...
...domestic eavesdropping program run by the National Security Agency. Last month the National Archives halted an effort by the U.S. intelligence community to make thousands of declassified documents secret once again. To Tom Blanton, head of the G.W.U.-affiliated National Security Archive, which monitors government secrecy, the FBI's request to scrub Anderson's files "looks like another front in the government-wide effort to squash dissent...
...return an e-mail request for comment yesterday...