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Harvard students had mixed reactions to the news that the ubiquitous site would be casting a wider...
...look up to, respect, and draw inspiration from? What about Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner from Iran? [Ebadi was the first Muslim woman and the first Iranian to ever win the Prize.]MM: I don’t know much about political issues in the wider world, but there are women in Pakistan’s history that I respect very much. Fatima Zahra, the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad, and then Fatima Jinnah, the sister of the founding father of Pakistan [Muhammed Ali Jinnah], who helped him create my country. These two are personalities that inspire...
...walkout protest could have achieved a great deal. Had there been a cohesive message, either supporting illegal immigrants, elevating downtrodden legal immigrants, or offering a way to improve immigration policy, there may have been far wider support. Instead, a loose and unrelated conglomeration of protestors milled about, confusing legality and illegality, state and statelessness, and haranguing about corporate America, handily ignoring the real issues that are facing the country...
...politics. Separate the military from the controversy,” Nosal said. Reserve Officers’ Training Corps member and panelist Peter H. Brooks ’06 said that for him the event was about fostering a greater understanding of the military for both Harvard students and the wider community. “There is a huge civil-military divide,” he said. “Especially here at Harvard, as future leaders of our country, it would seem as though they should have some sort of familiarity with the military.” Panelist John...
...some of Koizumi’s succcess to an imitation of American political strategy. Koizumi’s most recent landslide victory was a triumph of “an American style electoral candidate,” Schieffer said. Schieffer also focused on Japan and the U.S. in the wider context of Japan’s neighbors—especially China, North Korea, and South Korea. Among other things, Schieffer defended Japan’s recent approach to its World War II history. Even as he maintains his distance from Japan’s militaristic past, Koizumi has continued...