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...Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, on Feb. 25, carrying the New York Philharmonic orchestra and 80 journalists, that ennui pretty much went out the window. Television cameramen and photographers jostled for position in window seats to capture images of the brown, frozen landscape as it came into view below. Reporters brought out their small digital cameras to try to get the same photos for their scrapbooks, even as flight attendants frantically tried to shoo everyone back to their seats...
...want. Men, women and children were held at the infamous Macquarie Harbour jail before being exiled for life to a small island. That this was done to British subjects was, says Boyce, "one of the great crimes of the British Empire." Yet a visiting Charles Darwin echoed a common view when he mused in 1836 that Tasmania "enjoys the great advantage of being free from a native population...
...Task Force member John Cusack said that residents should view the decades-long partnership with the University as an opportunity to revitalize the neighborhood...
...themselves in a new, often strange, places. But students like Sengeh, Dlamini, and Fakhro, find themselves in a unique situation. As the only students from their respective countries, they encounter their own set of challenges. But they have the singular opportunity to introduce a culture and a point of view that no other Harvard student can provide. Luckily, the Harvard student body is receptive.“People here actually care about your background and always want to learn more,” Dlamini says. “You’re not easily going to find that interest outside...
...abortion or guns or bloody-shirt patriotism. This year they want a different conversation, about big things-the economy, America's place in the world, their children's future. This is not McCain's favorite conversation; he'd much rather focus on his-deeply simplistic, as he presents it-view of the war in Iraq, the false nonchoices of "victory" or "surrender...