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...They wanted to make sure she could continue studying without any financial issues,” Rouhani says.He also remembers that University President Derek C. Bok sent him a personal letter advising him to contact the president’s office with any problems. AN UNCERTAIN STATUS But University support could not smooth over all of the Iranian students’ worries. “They didn’t know what happened to their country,” Frye says. “Most of them thought this was going to be a new democratic Iran. They didn?...
...families to lock up their daughters. The government immediately appealed, and Parliament rushed to replace the defunct law, indeed to raise the age of consent for both genders to 17. Nevertheless, at a moment when much of Western Europe is scandalized over pedophilia, doubts now exist over the legal status of six other Irish men imprisoned for statutory rape - who, as a judge pointed out last week, were being held for violating a law that no longer existed. For their victims, who struggled through torturous legal processes over periods as long as 10 years, that is a horrifying prospect. "Somehow...
Less hyperbolic opponents point out that granting special official status to English is simply unnecessary: America has been accepting foreign-language-speaking immigrants forever--Brooklyn is so polyglot it is a veritable Babel--and yet we've done just fine. What's the great worry about Spanish...
...worry is this. Polyglot is fine. When immigrants, like those in Brooklyn, are members of a myriad of linguistic communities, each tiny and discrete, there is no threat to the common culture. No immigrant presumes to make the demand that the state grant special status to his language. He may speak it in the street and proudly teach it to his children, but he knows that his future and certainly theirs lie inevitably in learning English as the gateway to American life...
Thomson Professor of Government Richard Tuck, who will assume the position of Social Studies chair from Professor of Government Grzegorz Ekiert, explained the status of the steering committee: "We're in the process of thinking about people and approaching them. [The committee] will include representatives from obvious feeder departments...that at the moment provide teaching for Social Studies...