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After the traditional “Welcome, Welcome,” speech—consisting only of Dr. Micheline Mathews-Roth uttering the words “welcome, welcome”—Abrahams officially began the ceremony by acknowledging the 10 recipients of the award, symbolized by a blue cardboard pyramid with an infinity symbol...
...student body. In the wake of the first few incidents, a group of students gathered in a show of solidarity and protest at the picturesque Rotunda—the white-columned cylindrical building that sits at one end of the campus main grounds and is a widely recognized symbol of the university—according to university spokeswoman Carol S. Wood...
Most of America’s first and only introduction to the Church of Scientology comes from a glossy magazine or a television news program. After Cruise’s outburst, media sources from Entertainment Tonight to Time lionized him as a symbol of a twisted religion, and Cruise did little to stymie the negative onslaught. He promoted Scientology at a Nobel Peace Prize concert to widespread boos. He publicly stated that Brooke Shields should have used vitamins and exercise instead of antidepressants to help cure her post-partum depression; in response, she published an opinion piece...
When grades came out, I found a strange symbol where my tutorial grade should have appeared. “Grade not yet submitted,” according to the key. It was at this point that I started to get a little concerned. Weeks passed—no grade. I contacted my department, worried that not having the grade might affect my academic standing somehow. I was assured that it would not, which temporarily allayed my fears, if not my curiosity. As fall semester approached (and began) however, this curiosity took a turn towards skepticism. If my grade had already...
Orhan Pamuk is Turkey's most widely read living author. His fame and his liberal views have made him a symbol of Turkish aspirations to join the European Union. But the decision of a Turkish state prosecutor to try him for "publicly denigrating" the nation reinforced European ambivalence - in some cases, outright hostility - toward admitting the mainly Muslim country. Pamuk is due to face trial in December for comments made to the Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger in February in which he criticized Turkey's refusal to discuss the mass killings of Armenians at the start of the last century...