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...House and signed by the president if the Congress and administration are to maintain any semblance of an ethical position on this matter.According to the November 2005 New Yorker, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) can be implicated in four deaths of detainees in United States’ detention facilities abroad??among them Abu Ghraib in Iraq, Guantanamo Bay, in Cuba, and Bagram Air Base, in Afghanistan. Yet, due to Justice Department memos that argued that Iraqi insurgents were not protected by international law and that lesser forms of torture were legal, these CIA officers will not be facing...
...which is online at funding.fas.harvard.edu, could help Harvard move closer to achieving one of the goals set forth by the College’s Curricular Review last April. “Every Harvard College student should be expected to complete an international experience, defined as study, research, or work abroad?? according to the summary of the Curricular Review’s principal recommendations that was released at the time. In the first 10 days after the database’s release, 360 students used the site to search for grants, according to OIP Director Jane Edwards. The site...
...that—to gear toward students in the sciences,” Edwards says. “If you actually look at our scientists...they’re often travelling all over the world.”But students in the sciences are not queuing up to go abroad??and many administrators and students say the reasons include tightly-structured concentrations, lab commitments, pre-med requirements and the nature of study in the science disciplines.WHY STAY AT HOME?About 85 percent of students who went abroad last year were in the social sciences and humanities, while science...
...understand the responsibility the College has to protect its students. Waivers may not be able to absolve Harvard completely in the event of a tragedy in a country to which the State Department recommends Americans to defer travel. The potential consequences for the University and for future Harvard students abroad??not to mention for the student involved—if such a tragedy occurred far outweigh the benefits of approving travel to locations with strong State Department warnings. As it stands, Harvard’s restrictions are already among the loosest in academia. Yale, for instance, still refuses...
Another component of the Summer School—study abroad??had scheduled a month-long session of classes at Oxford University beginning July...