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...prominent humanitarian organizations raised concerns over the confrontation in which 400 or more Taliban prisoners held at the Qalai Janghi fortress near Mazar-i-Sharif were killed in a three-day onslaught of Northern Alliance artillery and machinegun fire and U.S. air strikes. United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson on Thursday added her voice to calls by Amnesty International for an urgent international inquiry into the bloodbath, while the International Committee of the Red Cross questioned whether the rules of war had been properly observed...
...Kelly jokes, “in the icy shadow of the Science Center,” it is inhabited by faculty “who not only have wide ranges of interest but also often outside musical careers”—for example, famed classical pianist and Robinson Professor of Music Robert D. Levin ’68. However, this makes for anything but the stereotypical “diva” atmosphere assumed to pervade music departments. According to Kelly, “though we have many programs which could ignore each other, we rejoice in each...
...Less than one-third of the faculty have offices in the same building. I rarely see the colleagues that are not in my building.” Blackbourn is sympathetic to the government department’s space dilemma. While the history department’s headquarters in Robinson Hall, professors have office space in Coolidge and CES as well. Blackbourn calls the history department a “friendly place to work,” but acknowledges that the geographic reality limits the ability of the department to get together as a whole...
...informal collaboration of faculty members is key to academic and social prosperity, according to history associate professor Catherine Corman. She and five other female junior faculty members who have young children sit in a “cluster” in Robinson Hall that they call the “pink-collar ghetto.” Much of her most productive informal input has come from this group, Corman says...
...outspoken," she says. "Once you have a separate identity, then other things will come." For most Muslim women, there are many things left to come. -Reported by Hannah Bloch/Islamabad, Amanda Bower/ New York, Andrew Finkel/Istanbul, Meenakshi Ganguly/New Delhi, Scott MacLeod/Riyadh, Azadeh Moaveni/Tehran, Amany Radwan/ Cairo, Matt Rees/Amman and Simon Robinson/ Sana...