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Underlying the album, Park says, is a simple message: “Day after day it’s more bad news and problems that seem insurmountable, but... you do what you can to be happy and be a good person and live your life the best you know how.” The directness of this message matches the straightforward feel of Park’s songs, which are often stripped down to his gently vibrating vocals and his soft guitar work...
...earlier version of the Apr. 12 news article "Gen Ed Promotes Creative Classwork" incorrectly stated that Professor of German Art and Culture Jeffrey F. Hamburger taught students to write "Allah" in Arabic script. In fact, Associate Director of the Islamic Studies Program Ali S. Asani ’77 showed the students how to write in calligraphy...
...agent from northern Idaho, shot the historic wolf. Within a few hours, he started getting angry calls - followed by angrier e-mails and Craigslist threats that included directions to his house - from people who found his contact information on his agency's website after reading his name in the news. "They didn't want to talk. They just wanted to yell," Millage says. (See pictures of animal attacks on humans...
When Roxana Saberi packed her bags for Iran in 2003, she could not have anticipated that part of her six-year stay would include five months in the country's most notorious prison. When her press credentials were suddenly revoked in 2006 (after years of filing reports for foreign news organizations), she chose to stay in the country she had grown to love and work on a book instead. Then on Jan. 31, 2009, four men forced her from her home, accused her of being a spy and placed her in solitary confinement in Evin Prison. She was heavily interrogated...
History has taught Greeks to be skeptical of promises of rescue by foreign powers, and the trail of failed plans to help Greece deal with its mountain of debt over the past few months has done little to assuage those fears. So despite the news Sunday, April 11, of a European bailout-loan offer worth some $40 billion, with the possibility of $20 billion more from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Greeks are growing increasingly pessimistic about their future. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...