Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may soon break bread with members of the Columbia International Relations Council and Association.
According to an email from the club’s listserv, members are invited to a private, Sept. 21 dinner in Midtown with the man whom University President Lee Bollinger introduced as “a petty and cruel dictator” when he spoke on campus in 2007.
A version of this article that appeared online over the weekend stated that CIRCA vice president of academics, Tim Chan, CC ’14, said someone in the group has a close relationship with the Iranian ambassador. After the article was published online Chan told Spectator he was mistaken and that there is no one in group with a close relationship to the ambassador. He also emphasized that the meeting with Ahmadinejad is still tentative.
Members of the group were informed over the summer that they might have the opportunity to bring 15 students to dinner with the head of state, whose views on Israel, human rights, and homosexuality have drawn sharp criticism.
Chan said that so far he hasn’t heard any concerns from members of the group.
“Everyone was really enthusiastic,” Chan said. “They’re thrilled to have this opportunity.”
A firestorm of media attention erupted when Ahmadinejad’s invitation to campus was announced in 2007. For a week, the campus was embroiled in debate over academic freedom and Iranian politics. Despite outside criticism and threats from alumni to withdraw funding, Bollinger refused to cancel the event. Students filled College Walk and Low Plaza to listen to Ahmadinejad’s speech and protest his notoriously dictatorial hold over Iran.
Ahmadinejad and his delegation of Iranian diplomats will be in town this month to attend the annual United Nations General Assembly.
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The US government yesterday named forMicrosoft, the world's greatest software company, to become broken up inside a proposal probably to get massive consequences for your future of the sector..
The department of justice and nearly all of the 19 US states that brought the landmark legal case towards the company agreed that splitting Microsoft into two parts was the only technique to prevent even more abuses of its monopoly place..
One particular a part of the new firm could be determined by the Windows working system, another would integrate anything else..
Legal professionals and analysts explained the program, if backed by a US judge, will be as considerable as the break-up of Normal Oil in 1911 or that of ATT, the US phone monopoly, in 1984..
Bill Kovacic, a law professor at George Washington university, said: "This situation will define the guidelines by which dominant companies should perform..
"Microsoft has been broken from the case, while an actual break-up could possibly hardly ever take place..
The company's stock market worth has nearly halved this yr and Bill Gates, the company's founder, has seen his net worth shrink from more than $100bn to about $60bn..
Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, that has ruled that Microsoft had broken the law, is to hear its situation prior to announcing his decision later on this yr..
The ??Project Runway?? designers go back-to-school as 11 tween and adolescent painters from the Harlem School in the Arts become their creative consultants.
Here??s hoping there??s pizza, donuts and Red Bull inside the workroom.
And sew it goes:
The Challenge: The designers ought to collaborate on an original painting with their young muses and after that, generate an avant-garde design according to the teen-spiration. Their styles ought to push boundaries but not be ??too literal.?? In other words, go weird or go property.
The Making-it-Workroom Drama: A number of the designers just don??t know how to kid around. Viktor Luna ??needs a cocktail?? immediately after painting with a hyper-opinionated, 12-year-old Skye. Laura Kathleen fashions pretty flowers with 11-year-old Kai, the Dali Lama of art, who preaches that ??failure?? is superior. Um, Kai clearly hasn??t been critiqued by judge Michael Kors.
Meanwhile, Olivier Green glues his quite chiffon bodice to his model, breaking the ??PR?? rules and gets a tongue-lashing demerit (but not detention) from mentor Tim Gunn.
The Runway Show: Is definitely an Expressionistic mess and we??re avant accomplished with it. The catwalk functions negative prom dresses, a hooker wolf suit, a dress Gunn dubbed ??Take Me to Geronimo?? in addition to a denim interpretation of FedEx delivery boxes.
The Guest Judge: Designer, shoe maven, philanthropist and political activist Kenneth Cole brings his always sturdy billboard viewpoints towards the panel.
Who??s In: Color-blind designer Anthony Ryan Auld wows once more with an ethereal gown according to the brushstrokes of his student muse. Heidi Klum is so in adore with his frock, Stylelist virtually forgot she was desperate to ??auf him last week.
Who??s Out: Joshu a Christensen gets mauled by Kors for his ??Victorian cocktail dress in Las Vegas?? wolf-inspired dress and is sent property --again. Stylelist understands it was an obvious selection to eliminate Christensen, who already had been eliminated in episode 2 and was offered a second shot on the runway right after Cecelia Motwani quit the competition. Nevertheless, we had been gunning for Green??s glued-on valium gown to motivate the judges to bid him adieu.
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