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...implications behind it. “I think that the excavation of the dry dates and facts have really little meaning,” said Burns. “Why you really want to mine the past for those artifacts is if they can suggest something bigger than the sum of their parts, and that involves higher emotions.” —Staff writer Rebecca A. Schuetz can be reached at schuetz@fas.harvard.edu...
...veto granted to women whose husbands seek to take another wife, allow men to divorce their wives without notification, and absolve divorced men from paying alimony, the alternative to which is a heavily-taxed severance that leaves the divorced wife with only a small fraction of the original sum. These clauses the government added to the Family Support Bill were met with tremendous contestation by the Iranian women’s rights movement, whose counter-attacks included the “One Million Signatures Campaign” against the act and against similar laws allowing men uncontested rights to child...
Gary C. Sing, a graduate student studying neuroengineering, started a petition last Wednesday to protest the $35 per semester fee that students face if they choose to pay their room and board in monthly installments rather than through a lump sum...
...Sing said. “As a Ph.D. grad student, I receive a monthly stipend of a little less than $2,000, after taxes. You can do the math. The monthly stipend does not allow you to pay off the $4,000 fee using the lump-sum method...
...feeling burdened by the stresses of your job - or puffed up by your most recent PowerPoint - a peek at the top line of Mohamed ElBaradei's résumé might help restore your equilibrium. As director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the 66-year-old Egyptian is the world's point man for staving off nuclear annihilation. On top of divining the atomic ambitions of shadowy dictators, ElBaradei is a linchpin in the high-stakes diplomatic dance between the U.S., Europe and wayward states like Iran and North Korea - an unenviable position that often leaves...