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...them was Gaurav “Libby” Yadav ’06, who took time off volunteering at a South Indian NGO to represent India last summer. Yadav ’06 was traveling around Bangalore with roommate Peter J. Doyle ’06 when he heard about the competition—“AXN Xtreme: India v. Pakistan”—sponsored by and then aired on the AXN extreme sports network...
...Center for Government and International Studies became a showcase for images of students travels to locales near and far. Also featured in the second annual International Photo Contest and Exhibition, sponsored by the Office of International Programs (OIP), were photographs of scenes ranging from European fashion runways to Indian street markets. The diversity of the images on display clearly reflected the breadth of students’ experiences abroad. Each photo evoked an emotion, whether the exuberance of schoolchildren playing in a fountain or the awe of an expansive landscape. There were over 220 submissions this year, according to OIP Assistant...
...This year's first major news story was the Indian Ocean Tsunami, and now the year is coming to a close after the devastating earthquakes in Kashmir, noted Williams. Between those two catastrophes intervened Hurricane Katrina, revealing both human failings and inspiring tales of human kindness and courage...
...conference in Tokyo sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington think tank, just a day before the Futenma agreement, Lawless stunned his audience by blasting the inertia, complacency and inadequacy of Japan's armed forces. Rather than offering the usual congratulations for support in Iraq and the Indian Ocean, Lawless called Japan's military initiatives over the years "quite modest." Japan's defense planning, Lawless said, was "episodic rather than systemic ... reactive rather than proactive." Lest there be any doubt about the message, Lawless spelled it out: "Japan must start doing things for itself that it has historically expected...
...standard in most mutual defense pacts, and which is the very cornerstone of NATO. The Japanese Prime Minister does not have anything rivaling the independent military powers that the U.S. President and many other heads of government possess. For example, although Koizumi orchestrated Japan's missions to the Indian Ocean and Iraq, each required a special act of parliament. And despite his popularity, Koizumi has faced stiff public opposition to every controversial military decision he has taken. Hiroshi Honma, a professor of international law at Hosei University, says the U.S. continues to underestimate Japan's ambivalence about its military...