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...secret that Harvard is not as study abroad-friendly as most other top colleges. “Historically, Harvard just doesn’t encourage its students to go abroad as much as other institutions,” says Kristin Moritz, director of international programs at Brown University...
It’s no secret Democrats outnumber Republicans on this campus. But at a place like Harvard, where it is virtually unthinkable to say anything negative to a student group benignly tabling in front of the Science Center, why is it widely acceptable to make fun of Republicans? The University and its students would tolerate my hypothetical second head, so why are Republicans greeted with such intolerance...
...some way. Even before the Sept. 11 attacks, intelligence sources say, Indonesia had quietly handed over other terror suspects directly into the hands of U.S. agents. American and Indonesian intelligence operatives conducted at least one joint operation to track down suspected al-Qaeda members. The missions were kept highly secret, not only to head off any possible public outrage but because the government itself was deeply split on the extent and nature of such actions...
...share the most secret thoughts and longings of The Tale of Genji's characters, as if we were reading a modern psychological novel, and yet these same people use a language (and belong to a culture) that is inaccessible to native speakers today. There are at least six translations into modern Japanese, as well as two notable previous renderings (by Arthur Waley and Edward Seidensticker) into English. Royall Tyler's new translation (Viking; 1,174 pages) is a genuine labor of love, and makes a special virtue of attending to a certain ceremonial indirectness in the way the characters address...
...caviar exporter quoted by an official of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, known as CITES. Holding those spoons as they divide the Caspian's wild sturgeon with Iran are Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. "In a region where fish stocks were once a carefully guarded state secret, and where there is still no comprehensive political agreement over how to share the Caspian Sea and its resources, this breakthrough on sturgeon management marks a dramatic step toward transparency and cooperation," says Jim Armstrong, deputy secretary-general of CITES. Under the unified system, the region's governments can demonstrate...