Word: booking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...From Area 51 to the once-secret prisons of Afghanistan, there are certain places that the U.S. government has tried its best to erase from most maps. But as author and geographer Trevor Paglen writes early on in his book, the absence of such places - the titular blank spots -inherently inform us of their exact locations: "Secrets, in other words, often inevitably announce their own existence." Over the next 250 pages, Paglen goes on to sketch out a survey of the dark corners of the United States' national security apparatus from the early 20th century to today...
Power—who won a Pulitzer Prize for her book on human rights—will join a slew of Harvard professors moving to Washington to join the Obama administration, including many of her colleagues at the Kennedy School and her husband, Cass R. Sunstein ’75, a professor at Harvard Law School...
Kennedy School Professor Graham T. Allison Jr.—who met Power when she was a third-year student at Harvard Law School and later co-edited a book on human rights with her—said that Power’s academic work may provide the best clues for how she will shape foreign policy in her new role...
...Problem from Hell,” her Pulitzer Prize winning book in 2003, explores the nation’s response to genocides in Cambodia, Iraq, and Rwanda among others, throughout the twentieth century...
...loudly in cute high voices, sometimes breaking into giggles. They could be any group of teenage girls on a merry shopping expedition in the Japanese capital's mecca of youth fashion - except for the fact that they are clad in clothing and accessories that mimic the look of comic-book heroines wearing the style of 18th-century princesses...