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...first started drawing comics about life under the Khmer Rouge, he didn't have a lot to go on. He had fled Cambodia as a teen in April 1975, when Phnom Penh fell to Pol Pot's forces, and had lived in Paris his whole adult life. Visual arts - except in the service of propaganda - were banned during the four years of Khmer Rouge oppression, leaving scant images of a period in which nearly 20% of Séra's compatriots died. So he used his imagination, and in 2005 tentatively staged an exhibition of the results in Phnom Penh...
...mail. According to Lewis, prior to the creation of the Ad Board, all disciplinary matters across the University were taken before the Faculty—as outlined in the University’s statutes. As the University expanded, the College delegated the responsibility to the Ad Board except in said extreme cases, he said. “Because it happens so rarely, the Faculty tends to be a little confused about what they’re actually being asked to do,” Lewis said. “They fundamentally are supposed to be assured by the College administration...
Annenberg is the spitting image of Hogwarts’ Great Hall; the Harvard housing lottery resembles Hogwarts’ sorting ceremony; acceptance letters are delivered by owls. Harvard has almost everything that the magical world of Harry Potter contains—except for Quidditch. Although Harvard is still missing out on the magic, “Muggle Quidditch” is sweeping through the nation. Well over one hundred colleges, including our Ivy League rivals Yale and Princeton, are already part of the Intercollegiate Quidditch Association, the official league started by Middlebury College students in 2005. Muggle Quidditch is played...
...Except that it isn't. In reality, it's just a bureaucratic shuffle and an exercise in political branding, a shout-out to interest groups as well as to an influential former rival who loves making impassioned statements about poverty. There's no reason to expect this new slot on an org chart to do any more to win the war on poverty than the creation of a cabinet-level drug czar 20 years ago did to win the war on drugs. Hillary suggested it would enhance accountability by making one person responsible for ending poverty: "No more excuses...
...Except Vegan/Vegetarianism...