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...providing the elderly Jews of Central and Eastern Europe with a platform to tell us about, and show us, the world that was destroyed." The platform itself is noteworthy. The Centropa oral history project appears on the Internet, which can accommodate more material, in a more accessible way, than specialist museums. It also extends the reach of that material around the world. "It's a real contribution," says Boston University historian Ezra Mendelsohn, a leading specialist on East European Jewry. The story of Judit Kinszki, now available with 60 other interviews and 750 family photographs at www.centropa.org, begins with...
Harvard has abdicated its leadership among universities who oppose on-campus military recruiting, and that may prove to send a far-reaching signal. Higher education specialist Sheldon Steinbach has predicted that allowing military recruiters at Harvard, which has both a world-class reputation and a history of standing up to the military, could lead many other law schools to follow. This past year, any opposition to military actions has been highly unpopular. Getting Harvard to cave may be the win the military needs to pursue even further intervention on campuses around the country...
Four years ago, merger specialist Kang was ready for a change. So when a representative of George Soros' investment firm asked the Korean-born New Yorker to run Seoul Securities, a foundering brokerage house that Soros had bought, Kang, now 40, jumped. And he has delivered: he transformed Seoul Securities from a mom-and-pop retail shop to a full-service firm with investment-banking and money-management arms. The company has turned a profit in every quarter since his arrival...
...they need modern energy. And renewables can help, from village-scale hydro power to household photovoltaic systems to bio-gas stoves that convert dung into fuel. More than a million rural homes in developing countries get electricity from solar cells. "The potential is enormous," says Anil Cabraal, an energy specialist for the World Bank, which has helped finance 500,000 residential solar systems from Argentina to Sri Lanka...
...earth today," says Nicholas Eberstadt, a North Korea expert at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington D.C. "But that tells you how successfully the North Korean leadership has suppressed information that might allow outsiders to draw an independent assessment of it." Kim Choong Nam, a North Korea specialist at the East-West Center, a think tank in Hawaii, agrees: "This phone book gives us the best picture yet of how North Korea works...