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...That may be true, but officials at the British Museum speak from a privileged position. They don't answer to the government and can freely pursue a cultural agenda with any country. For Iran's curators, politics underscores every exchange, and sending relics abroad requires authorization from some of Iran's most powerful bureaucrats. That makes the Shah 'Abbas show all the more significant. "Iranians feel they are misunderstood, misrepresented and sometimes rather snubbed by the West," says Michael Axworthy, director of the Centre for Persian and Iranian Studies at the University of Exeter. "There are few things the Iranians...
...mother think? MBK: If she were a student I think she’d be the first person to study these courses. In fact, students invite their parents to my lectures all the time. I think it’s my job to give people the intellectual tools to speak comfortably about uncomfortable things. When I see parents in the audience, I see that their kids are feeling comfortable. That makes me feel like I’ve done something well. 3. FM: Why do you think sex and sexuality were taboo topics in Western culture?MBK: Essentially...
General David H. Petraeus, chief of U.S. military operations in much of the Eastern Hemisphere, including the Middle East, will speak at this spring’s Reserve Officer Training Corps commissioning ceremonies at both Harvard and MIT, a top ROTC official confirmed earlier today...
This year, Hall said, a group of Harvard cadets decided they wanted to invite Petraeus to speak at the commissioning ceremony, and Petraeus—who spoke at the Kennedy School in 2002—accepted the group’s offer...
...Duch did not speak during his first day in court, and full testimony is not expected to be heard until substantive hearings in March. But the classroom walls at Tuol Sleng speak for themselves, hung with the black and white mug shots of many of the 14,000 men, women and children who were imprisoned and tortured until they confessed to betraying Pol Pot's revolution. Later they were trucked to the outskirts of Phnom Penh where, blindfolded, they were dispatched standing at the edge of mass graves that would later be dubbed "the killing fields...