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LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 29, 2021) The University of Kentucky Office of Nationally Competitive Awards has announced that two Wildcats have been awarded Critical Language Scholarships, which provide funding to participate in intensive language and cultural immersion programs for American students enrolled at U.S. colleges and universities.
Mihir Kale, a political science major, Chellgren Fellow and member of the Lewis Honors College, will study Swahili virtually through the MS Training Centre for Development Cooperation in Arusha, Tanzania. Michael Di Girolamo, a foreign language and international economics/Chinese and international studies major, Chellgren Fellow and member of the Lewis Honors College, will study Chinese virtually through Changchun Humanities and Sciences College in Changchun, China.
Print Protesters take shelter behind shields as they clash with riot police officers during a protest against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar, on March 1, 2021. Stringer/Reuters
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Early this month, Myanmar’s armed forces took control of the country. Moving overnight, they detained most leading politicians and many civil-society activists, barricaded roads, cut off internet access, arrested people in the darkness, and made an announcement of the coup on state television. In the weeks since, the generals have declared a curfew, blocked foreign social media platforms, put Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest, and this past weekend the authorities killed at least eighteen people on Sunday.
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Translated from Danish by Benedicte Thymann Nielsen. Edited by Helaine Schweitzer.
Posted on January 22, 2021.
Wednesday’s attack on Congress was not an attempted coup in the pure political sense. The threat to democracy does not come from within the state. Instead, it comes from Donald Trump, his fanatic supporters and a Republican Party that is increasingly authoritarian. The question now is whether in the wake of the attack, Republicans will change their strategy, safeguard democracy and tell the truth.
On Jan. 6, Donald Trump stood in front of thousands of supporters; some of them dressed in militia attire, carrying guns, while a few were carrying actual pipe bombs. In an hour-long speech, Trump told his supporters that the election had been stolen from them and that it was their job to take back their country. Trump ended his speech by asking his supporters to head to Capitol Hill, the very symbol of American democracy.