Word: ruralization
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...research with the Bakhtiyari that led, however circuitously, to his role in Massoud Jaffari-Jozani’s feature film. While studying monuments in rural tribal cemeteries, Rossoukh and his assistant were arrested because villagers found them suspicious. A police officer, while driving the two men back to the station for interrogation, related the folkloric tale of ‘Abde Mamad Lalari, a famous sheep thief and infamous Iranian Don Juan. Rossoukh had thought Lalari to be an entirely fictional character, like Robin Hood. This police officer said differently. “He told...
...stability. They are also aware that repression has its dangers. Stifling opposition leaves room for the growth of official corruption and hurts the government's international prestige. So the new leaders have some reforms in mind. These include: revising the country's inequitable household registration system that discriminates against rural residents; strengthening the rules for investigating Party members who abuse their positions; and reinforcing the institutions that allow popular "supervision" of local cadres. But they have no plans to alter the fundamental character of Party rule through real sharing of power and information. Whatever the leadership lineup that parades before...
Ansel A. Payne ’04 from Roane County, West Virginia said his childhood in rural Appalachia gave him a distinctive understanding on a history of exploitation rarely addressed in courses here. The contrast between perceptions of the poor at Harvard and their day-to-day reality was striking to Maggie J. Morgan ’04 when she arrived here from Tupelo, Mississippi. “People here need a broader perspective of how others actually live. Many think poor people are just some abstract group that needs to be reformed,” she said...
Unlike any number of top jock schools, Notre Dame has always had a university its football team could be proud of. Yet football has forever defined the university. Without those pigskin Saturdays in South Bend, Ind., Notre Dame might be just another very nice Catholic school, a rural Villanova...
...first-term member of Congress was displaced from much of his old Salt Lake City electorate due to redistricting, and instead found himself with 16 conservative rural counties. Nonetheless, Matheson is favored over his Republican opponent, John Swallow, who is currently a state representative...