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...this case. But please do not make the mistake of concluding that the Weatherhead Center has defended Mr. Kramer’s positions. To paraphrase Voltaire, many of us strongly disagree with what he has said, but will defend to the death his right to say it. The WCFIA statement these students refer to only makes the case that the speech in question is probably protected, for better or for worse. In another place and time, it might not be. In much of Europe, there might be legal grounds for prosecuting someone who propounded such positions...
...cannot indulge in Professor Walt’s speculation about “what if” the target of Kramer’s policies had been different. The WCFIA has never excommunicated an affiliate for political or policy views. We cannot go in the direction Mr. Bowman, Ms. Gharavi, and Mr. Rashid suggest—vetting associates for such positions, even on something as distasteful as racism. What we can and must do is screen our affiliates for the highest possible scholarly qualifications, and then let them burnish or ruin their own reputations by non-scholarly utterances...
...International Development (CID), in an e-mail. In an e-mail sent to rejected applicants, the CID said that they received six times more proposals than they were able to fund, making the selection process highly competitive. The CID funded nine research grants. The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (WCFIA) reported a 20 percent increase in the number of juniors seeking funding, rising to 90 applicants from 75 last year. “There are more internationally focused theses [this year],” said Clare Putnam, the student programs coordinator for the WCFIA, which awarded 24 grants this year...
...this week, students can take advantage of several opportunities to learn about job opportunities abroad through the International Career Week held by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (WCFIA...
...WCFIA is hosting a UN Security Council Reform forum in Coolidge Hall from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. tonight, featuring Sumio Kusaka, executive secretary to the chief cabinet secretary of Japan, Pramathesh Rath, Indian ambassador to Colombia, and Klaus Rupprecht, director of the German Foreign Office's East Asian division...