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...Viewed in a limited context-as a short-term deterrent to terrorism or as a means of containing a population, for example-walls can achieve their objectives. The slab surrounding the West Bank has dramatically reduced the number of suicide bombings inside Israel. The Berlin Wall successfully divided a city for decades. But Danny Seidemann, an Israeli lawyer and legal counsel to Ir Amim, an organization advocating for a Jerusalem that is shared by Israelis and Palestinians, says walls are more than just concrete and barbed wire. They are corrosive symbols of social and economic rifts and iniquities, divisions that...
...urging professors to focus on the history of the field, methodology of the field, social context of the field,” he said. “It is not clear why this should be imperative for science and not any other discipline...
...life,” he said. Viddal’s $1,000 second prize-winning collection, “The Devotional Arts of Haitian Vodou,” found its roots in an African dance class Viddal took in college. She became fascinated with the origins and the context of various Haitian dance moves, an interest that took her to Haiti four times to study the interconnectivity of the religion, performance, music, and dance of Haitian Vodou. “I’ve been astounded with the intensity and creativity of religious art [in Haiti],” Viddal...
...house and was followed by a question-and-answer session with Soyinka. Jacqueline Bhabha, executive director of the University Committee on Human Rights Studies, called the speech “brilliant.” “He did an excellent job of contextualizing the problem within a broader context,” Bhabha said. Soyinka, who won the Nobel Prize in 1986, is primarily considered a playwright, though his novels and poetry collections have also garnered critical acclaim. Soyinka, originally from western Nigeria, is also known for his political activism, including outspoken criticism of dictatorships in Nigeria and worldwide...
...Chechnya; and they will remember the whiff of corruption over his inner circle and his bargain-basement sale of the Russian state's most lucrative economic assets to a cabal of oligarchs in exchange for their funding of his reelection in 1996. Indeed, it is in the context of the failings of the Yeltsin years that the authoritarian nationalist orientation of his successor, President Vladimir Putin, is best understood...