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...been resolved 80 years ago have now been reopened. In the 1920s, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founding father of the new Turkish Republic, sought to stampede his native land into modernity by restricting public displays of a religion whose expression he saw as an impediment to progress. He banned the fez, purged the education system of any reference to Islam, and paraded his wife bareheaded through rural parts of the country. His successors outlawed head scarves from public buildings, requiring conservative young women, including the daughters of the current Prime Minister, to go abroad to study. When...
...Asia. HCAP applications, initially only avilable on its website, are due in October. But because of the server crash, Mejia said that he has resorted to e-mailing the applications. Mejia also said that potential host universities in Asia have been unable to gain important information about HCAP, stunting progress. Zhang Yi-Hua, a vice dean at Fudan University in Shanghai, wrote in an e-mail that he hoped the website would be fixed soon because he would “definitely need to know more details” before committing to HCAP. “This is where Harvard...
...Because there are new categories, closing the achievement gap has become more complicated. “What achievement gap are we looking at now and what is the achievement gap? How are we going to look at the data and figure out if we’re making progress or not?” Walser asked during the meeting. “That is a really major question that we have to talk about some more.” After discussing the various permutations of the achievement gap, School Committee member Richard Harding said he felt that the district...
...Despite the rising housing market, Morocco will remain an attractive and affordable option for both retired and active Europeans for years to come. Significant progress in massive construction, transport, roadway and communications projects launched by the government to develop the country and boost annual tourism from the current 6.5 million visitors to 10 million by 2010 is already evident in and around major cities. "Morocco is utterly unrecognizable from what it was 10 years ago - and in another 10, it will be totally transformed," says Hassan Belmaheb, a 64-year-old retired Moroccan Bell Telephone factory worker who has lived...
Despite the potential repercussions of this change to smaller businesses, this is a time for progress; a gross physical salute to the limitless possibilities bounded by our neighborhood, a place long known to be the center not only of the intellectual world but of almost all matters of any importance. Truly, this is no place for quaint, locally owned Mom-and-Pop shops, poisoning us with their backward ways and sometimes friendly service, adding what some call “character” to the Square...