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Students, others say it’s time BU moves forward, launching initiatives to lift indigenous students, faculty, staff, and local communities
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Students, others say it’s time BU moves forward, launching initiatives to lift indigenous students, faculty, staff, and local communities
BOSTON — A Native American tribe is calling on Boston University to change the name of a dorm that honors Myles Standish, the military leader of the Pilgrims.
A view of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, from the sea. Credit: MDart10 / Shutterstock.com A few days into the New Year, armed Somali intelligence officials were seen escorting guests into three bullet-proof cars at Mogadishu’s Aden Adde International airport. An unusual quiet stretched through the capital’s normally busy main streets as the convoy snaked through cordoned-off roads towards Somalia’s presidential palace. Local and international media reported that two foreign companies were arriving in Mogadishu to sign a “secret” historic oil deal with the Federal Government of Soma...
A view of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, from the sea. Credit: MDart10 / Shutterstock.com A few days into the New Year, armed Somali intelligence officials were seen escorting guests into three bullet-proof cars at Mogadishu’s Aden Adde International airport. An unusual quiet stretched through the capital’s normally busy main streets as the convoy snaked through cordoned-off roads towards Somalia’s presidential palace. Local and international media reported that two foreign companies were arriving in Mogadishu to sign a “secret” historic oil deal with the Federal Government of Soma...