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...lecture drew about 50 audience members—including graduate students, undergraduates, professors, and academic fellows from the Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe...
Since then, the national buzz surrounding the scandal has spawned a book, news specials, and most recently, a theatrical production under the working title of “The Harvard Project.” The play, which has already undergone three workshop performances at Manhattan’s East 13th Street Theater, chronicles the lives of Harvard students who were investigated and expelled for “homosexualism” during those clandestine proceedings...
...sticking point. On the evening before Clinton's speech, Recep Tayyip Erdogan - the Prime Minister of Turkey and an erstwhile ally of Israel's - was cheered when he raged against the conditions in Gaza, calling it "an open-air prison." (See pictures of George W. Bush in the Middle East...
Wrong answer. And not merely because the Islamic participants in Doha were hoping for something more concrete. It was wrong because it demonstrated the chronic weakness of Obama's Middle East strategy. As soon as he was inaugurated, the President went directly for the big prize: a comprehensive two-state solution. But the timing was lousy. The Israelis had just elected a right-wing government led by Benjamin Netanyahu, whose coalition partners were vehemently opposed to negotiations. The Palestinians were fiercely divided between Fatah, which controls the West Bank, and the more militant Hamas. U.S. envoy George Mitchell's slow...
...have been around 85 years old at the time of her death, was the last living member of the Bo, one of 10 tribes that comprise an ethnic group known as the Great Andamanese people. Like some other indigenous groups on this archipelago 745 miles (1,200 km) east of the Indian mainland, the Great Andamanese evolved in isolation for millenniums until the 1850s, when the colonial British began to settle the Andamans. Since then, the population has plummeted, from at least 5,000 to just 52 people now lumped together in a sprawl of cottages on one island...