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2021 Peace and War Virtual Summit to feature pair of discussions Even amid polarized partisan division on everything from coronavirus relief to infrastructure proposals, Congress does have at least one bipartisan bill. It addresses Chinese competition in technology, and will get scrutiny Wednesday. The same day, the Virtual Peace and War Summit at Norwich University will address the same U.S.-China technology race in two online sessions. The John and Mary Frances Patton Peace and War Center is ...

Updated: March 5, 2021, 9:42 am © SYSTEM StAnza, Scotland’s International Poetry Festival, is set to go live online this weekend. The annual St Andrews-based celebration of poetry, which is due to open on Saturday, will take the form of a hybrid, digital festival for the first time due to Covid-19, with dozens of local, national and international poets taking part in the festival over nine days StAnza 2021 will open with a first night extravaganza showcasing a selection of poems, film, art a...

2021 Peace and War Virtual Summit Welcome to the 2021 Peace and War Virtual Summit The Peace and War Summit at Norwich University, America’s oldest private military college and birthplace of the Reserved Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC), examines significant international issues with an eye at recommending viable solutions. The inaugural summit, a two-day event in September 2018, addressed North Korea’s nuclear and missile challenges. In our 2021 summit, we discuss a most pressing ...

‘ALL my life, people have been insisting that social class is no longer relevant” Darren McGarvey says in the opening of Class Wars, a new documentary series whose first episode aired on BBC Scotland this week. Darren’s mission? To “prove to you just how entrenched social class is in Scotland”. The hook for episode one is a personal sense of crisis. With the success of his book Poverty Safari, he now finds he has “been afforded the very lifestyle I spent much of my life slagging o...

Along the Street: Farmers Market offers prize for winning poster design The McMinnville Downtown Association is seeking submissions of art for the 2021 Farmers Market poster. Designs will be used on the 11x17-inch poster for the market, which will run from noon to 6 p.m. on Thursdays, May through October. The chosen artist will receive $200 in cash and a T-shirt featuring the winning design. For more information or to submit designs, contact Chloe@downtownmcminnville.com. Deadline is Feb. 20. M...

The much-anticipated, decades-old Kingston Christmas tradition of the annual University Singers carol service took place last Sunday at the University Chapel, at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona campus. The festival of nine lessons and carols was viewed live by hundreds on YouTube, and it has subsequently been already enjoyed online by a global audience of over 20,000 music lovers, faithfuls, and past and present members and friends of the university’s worldwide community. This...