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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...American sensibility, the issue has to be seen from the point of view of individual rights: If women want to wear this cloak, they have a perfect right to do so, even in eyes of those Americans who are most hostile to foreign ways of living. It matters not whether these women wear the burka in public or in private, because their “rights” are the same. However, public space in the French scheme of things is not just a non-private and therefore public space by virtue of default. It’s a universalist...

Author: By Patrice L. R. Higonnet | Title: Burka in the French and American Minds | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...study on the plane back to school; Constance McMillen, the Mississippi student who was not allowed to attend her high school prom with her girlfriend; people who worry that Arizona’s new law will lead to their being stopped and questioned by officers who think they look foreign-born; and thousands of others. But I hope you can answer her question about why we should care about "that Guantánamo stuff," whether you cite the rule of law, the American tradition of leadership in human rights, or just the Golden Rule...

Author: By Susan N. Herman | Title: Change We Can Believe In? | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

According to Charles M. Strauss ’60, the very idea that the administration would—or should—bother to gauge student feedback before, say, altering the house system, was entirely foreign...

Author: By James K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: College Housing Debates | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...fact, Strauss said, the idea that undergraduates themselves should be concerned with administrative affairs was equally foreign, even in cases where their experience was at stake...

Author: By James K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: College Housing Debates | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

After leaving Harvard, Owada knew she wanted to continue in her father’s footsteps and join the Foreign Ministry. In 1986, she enrolled in the law department at Tokyo University to study for the Ministry’s entrance exam. She entered the Ministry only a year later—after passing an exam that less than six percent passed that year...

Author: By Stephanie B. Garlock, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Japanese Princess Bridges Cultures | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

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