Word: sven
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...students stop to consider who occupied Old Yard, but an examination of Harvard’s past reveals a history of entanglements with slavery—a history that is just now coming to light because of a four-person research seminar taught this fall by History professor Sven Beckert...
...Somali village of Doble, bombed Monday by a U.S. missile that killed four civilians, is not a nice place. When I drove along Somalia's southern border with Kenya last June with photographer Sven Torfinn, we found an area riddled with thorn scrub, dust roads and mistrust. Because of the Islamist militants' hold on the area, we were traveling with an escort of 20 gunmen, crammed into the back of two pickups. When we came across villages, Sven and I would stay in the car, hiding under headscarves drawn over our heads, pretending to be women. The destination...
...Doble is a nasty area, home to some nasty people, saying and doing nasty things. But most of those aren't from Doble. From what Sven and I saw, Doble itself, like much of Africa and Arabia, is a place full of hospitable villagers struggling to survive amid what the U.N. says has now overtaken Darfur as Africa's worst humanitarian disaster, with 1.8 million people in dire need of assistance. And if drought, starvation and disease weren't enough, they now find themselves on the latest battleground in a global war between the U.S. and al-Qaeda. The victims...
...Jonathan Shay ’63 and Sven Haakanson, who received his MA and PhD from the university in 1996 and 2000, are the other two recipients...
...free download on Aug. 29, the most recent version of the video-sharing software—known simply as “Tribler”—appears to be gaining something of a foothold. Ten thousand downloads were recorded in the first week alone, according to Sven Seuken, a second-year graduate student in computer science who works with the Tribler team. One of the distinctive features intended to give Tribler a leg up on the competition is its use of an electronic “currency” to address the inefficiencies that have plagued other peer...