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Confronting Racism

August 16, 2024 02:37 PM
Recent statements by President Russell M. Nelson and other church leaders offer insights into how to think about differences among people—and offer important guidance in thinking about racism through what President Nelson called a “journey of understanding and overcoming.”

2023
1 Min Read
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African Lusophone Poetry in Translation

August 16, 2024 04:03 PM
Recent statements by President Russell M. Nelson and other church leaders offer insights into how to think about differences among people—and offer important guidance in thinking about racism through what President Nelson called a “journey of understanding and overcoming.”

2023
12 Min Read
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Rethinking Africa from 19,341 Feet

August 15, 2024 02:08 PM
We don’t have to look far to find a long history of inaccurate and damaging approaches to teaching non-Africans about the African diaspora. But there are better ways to learn about it—and some educators and institutions are evolving to adopt them.

2023
10 Min Read
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The Best of the Borens

June 28, 2023 10:27 AM
In 2022, BYU claimed the No. 1 ranking among U.S. universities for the most students receiving awards, ending up with twelve Boren Scholarship winners and a Boren Fellow. Why are so many BYU students receiving this prestigious national foreign-language scholarship?

2022
4 Min Read
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On Expertise and Humility

June 28, 2023 11:02 AM
Regardless of your chosen career path, a key element of your success will be the expertise you develop and the value that expertise will bring to society. As you develop expertise in your chosen fields, cultivate intellectual humility.

2022
14 Min Read
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Expressed in Our Actions

June 28, 2023 11:30 AM
The little bits that we personally are able to contribute are seen by the Lord. He brings it all together in a great flywheel that begins to spin. I am thankful to be a small part of what the Lord is doing on the earth.

2022
7 Min Read
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Life in a Liminal Time

June 23, 2022 04:23 PM
Is the worldwide pandemic a lesson in global empathy? Technology writer and MIT professor Sherry Turkle thinks so. A New York Times review of her memoir, The Empathy Diaries, says she hopes “that the pandemic has afforded us a view of one another’s problems and vulnerabilities in a way we might not have had as much access to before.”

2021
12 Min Read
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A Family Travels Before and After(ish) a Global Pandemic

June 29, 2022 08:28 AM
Since my husband and I are now fully COVID vaccinated, we have felt comfortable traveling within the US. It was our turn to be New Zealand. Here’s a back-and-forth look at the last trip we took pre-pandemic and the first trip we took post-vaccination.

2021
4 Min Read
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Uncertainty Abroad

June 29, 2022 09:01 AM
Many see the curated externalities of a study abroad on an Instagram feed: familiar photo spots, group adventures, new insights, food discoveries. But for John Talbot, BYU professor of English and director of the study abroad to Siena, Italy, disruption is intentional and uncertainty should be considered a programmatic skill set.

2021
8 Min Read
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A Great Spiritual Biodiversity

June 29, 2022 09:14 AM
The more time we spend in the wetland, the more we learn about it; and the more we learn about it, the more we realize that its beauty is fragile and threatened. It exists in a balance.

2021
9 Min Read
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Lost in Shanghai

April 29, 2022 01:06 PM
At its core, this is a story of love—God’s love. This is my path to conversion, in which humility played a key role.

2020
8 Min Read
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Foreign Service Family

April 29, 2022 12:14 PM
Blaine Tueller was at church with his family in Washington, DC. A prominent Latter-day Saint greeted him and began a conversation. Upon learning of Tueller’s career as a diplomat, the man declared, “You can’t be a good Latter-day Saint and be in the Foreign Service,” and abruptly walked away without explaining why the two were incompatible.

2020
8 Min Read
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Tyranny of the Urgent

April 29, 2022 11:22 AM
My path to the US Department of State, like those of many others’, was not direct. I spent the 2018–19 year as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow, but a delay in gaining an interim security clearance necessitated an adjustment in my plans.

2020
6 Min Read
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A Coronavirus Exodus on a Diplomatic Passport

April 27, 2022 01:30 PM
A consular-cone Foreign Service officer, Joey Leavitt, and his family braved ambiguous and ever-changing international immigration rules to travel from Dubai to Las Vegas in early April via London and Los Angeles. Leavitt rated and detailed their experience for us.

2020
4 Min Read
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Perspectives in American Diplomacy

April 27, 2022 01:37 PM
President Trump’s administration may well be judged almost entirely upon its handling of the coronavirus pandemic. As of this writing, it is too soon to tell what that judgment will be. In recent days we have certainly seen a more brusque relationship between China and the US as a result.

2020
11 Min Read
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The Foreign Service: Springboard or Landing Pad

April 27, 2022 02:02 PM
A diplomacy career is often considered to be a single, lifetime tra­jectory. While that may be true for some, many join the Foreign Ser­vice as a second career and others leave it for new opportunities. We reached out to Kennedy Center alumni to learn how the Foreign Service has been a springboard to a different career—or, for some, a landing pad.

2020
8 Min Read
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Multidimensional Women, Multidimensional Lives

April 27, 2022 02:17 PM
I congratulate this society for its focus on both women in the world and Latter-day Saint women in the world. The work of the twenty-first century—both in the Church and in the wider community that Church members serve in—is changing and is adapting to change demographics, to change understanding, and to change perspectives.

2019
18 Min Read
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Giving Voice

April 27, 2022 02:26 PM
Historically, women’s voices have been missing. And while women compose almost 50 percent of the world’s population, studying women’s experiences and perspectives has only been acknowledged in academia since the 1970s.

2019
6 Min Read
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Far and Wide

April 27, 2022 02:45 PM
Located along the Silk Road, Kazakhstan is a melting pot where the East and West once moved freely. Eventually becoming part of the Soviet Union, the country exhibits traces today of Middle Eastern, Western, Asian, and Soviet influences.

2019
2 Min Read
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The Path Not Taken

April 27, 2022 03:09 PM
Many students in international majors or minors start with an aspiration to be State Department diplomats or USAID workers. However, statistics reveal that, after they graduate, most of these students choose different paths.

2018
14 Min Read
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All Men by Nature Desire

April 27, 2022 03:13 PM
When I was growing up, my father and I would listen to cassette-tape recordings of Alan Watts, the British popularizer of East Asian religions and a key figure of the 1960s counterculture movement.

2018
8 Min Read
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Promising Partnerships

April 27, 2022 03:31 PM
From collaborating with the next county over to building relationships below the equator, BYU enjoys many partnerships that have greatly benefited the Latin American studies program.

2017, Issue 2
11 Min Read
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La Vida es un Carnaval

April 27, 2022 03:57 PM
On Friday night, on a corner just off Provo’s Center Street, you can hear the familiar Latin beat coming from a small restaurant that serves Dominican cuisine. El Tropical is a gathering place for great food, dancing, and karaoke, and at the end of each week, a crowd gathers to push the tables back and have a bit of fun.

2017, Issue 2
2 Min Read
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Toward Global Competence

April 27, 2022 04:14 PM
Going abroad is about much more than experiencing the joy—and difficulty—of travel, filling your Instagram feed with adventuring, or even doing your GE or major coursework in a different country.

2017, Issue 1
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Making Global Possible

April 28, 2022 07:58 AM
It’s easy to imagine that most BYU students participate in educational programs abroad. After all, “the world is our campus”—at least it’s been on the sign that has welcomed everyone to BYU since the 1960s—and becoming globally competent seems to be a shared goal.

2017, Issue 1
6 Min Read
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On Being Christian in India

April 28, 2022 08:05 AM
On a normal day in McLeod Ganj, India, my host mom, Tam Kho, woke up at 6:00 a.m. to make balep—bread—for breakfast. By the time I woke up at 6:30, she was sitting on the floor of her tiny kitchen mixing flour, baking soda, and water with her hands...

2017, Issue 1
6 Min Read
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Asian Perspectives

April 28, 2022 08:12 AM
Expatriate memoirs have glamorized international living since the days of sailing ships and far-flung empires. More recently, social media has brought a filter-tinted perspective that makes these lifestyles appear even more alluring.

2016, Issue 2
15 Min Read
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An Asian Frame of Reference

April 28, 2022 08:17 AM
One thing is clear: we have frequent opportunities to better understand Asia from our perch in Provo. Consider this sampling of a few recent and notable Kennedy Center events...

2016, Issue 2
9 Min Read
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Asian Studies Elevated

April 28, 2022 08:26 AM
The Asian studies coordinator at BYU’s Kennedy Center, Professor Eric Hyer also has a shared responsibility with the university’s greatest rival: the University of Utah. Hyer is one of two directors of the Intermountain Consortium for Asian and Pacific Studies (IMCAPS).

2016, Issue 2
4 Min Read
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The Road Less Traveled

April 28, 2022 08:31 AM
Old habits die hard, and as an international securities lawyer, I found myself simultaneously performing due diligence about you in preparing my remarks. I learned a little about your backgrounds, your studies, and your internships abroad.

2016, Issue 1
15 Min Read
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Focusing on a Dead World

April 28, 2022 08:32 AM
Originally a premed student, Huntsman intended to be a doctor or a lawyer, but an honors course called Greek Through the New Testament and a Pearl of Great Price class taught by Hugh Nibley developed within him a burning excitement for the ancient world, which eventually changed the course of his education and his career.

2016, Issue 1
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Healing the Cracks

April 28, 2022 08:36 AM
For several years now I have closely followed the work of the LDS International Society. As a General Authority coming from outside the United States, I have a special and passionate interest in the worldwide growth of the Church.

2016, Issue 1
21 Min Read
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27 Palace Court

April 28, 2022 08:42 AM
Not far from Hyde Park and Kensington Palace, 27 Palace Court has been called home by thousands of BYU students eager for a life-changing experience across the pond.

2015
1 Min Read
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One Last Lecture

April 28, 2022 08:45 AM
I have been given an expiration date—a “best if enjoyed by” date. So I want to talk about a few things I have learned throughout the years, given as thirteen principles.

2015
9 Min Read
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There's a Fund for That

April 28, 2022 08:53 AM
It’s too expensive! I can’t afford it!” This excuse, in one form or another, is among the top reasons that students give for not studying abroad.

2015
9 Min Read
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Pt. 1, 30 Spotlights for 30 Years

April 28, 2022 09:01 AM
As part of a thirtieth-anniversary celebration that marks the year between these two founding events, we highlight on the following pages thirty alumni and friends—a small representation of the center’s broad and seemingly immeasurable global impact.

2014, Issue 2
14 Min Read
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Pt. 2, 30 Spotlights for 30 Years

April 28, 2022 09:08 AM
As part of a thirtieth-anniversary celebration that marks the year between these two founding events, we highlight on the following pages thirty alumni and friends—a small representation of the center’s broad and seemingly immeasurable global impact.

2014, Issue 2
12 Min Read
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Pt. 3, 30 Spotlights for 30 Years

April 28, 2022 09:15 AM
As part of a thirtieth-anniversary celebration that marks the year between these two founding events, we highlight on the following pages thirty alumni and friends—a small representation of the center’s broad and seemingly immeasurable global impact.

2014, Issue 2
13 Min Read
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International Diplomacy and the Church

April 28, 2022 09:20 AM
IN THE PREFATORY SECTION of the Doctrine and Covenants, the Lord declared, “And the voice of warning shall be unto all people, by the mouths of my disciples, whom I have chosen in these last days” (D&C 1:4).

2014, Issue 1
22 Min Read
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Utah

April 28, 2022 09:23 AM
You might receive these greetings if you stick your head into the classrooms of many Utah elementary schools. But you’ll also hear much more than “hello” in Mandarin, Portuguese, French, and Spanish.

2014, Issue 1
3 Min Read
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We Are No Longer the Center of the Universe

April 28, 2022 09:36 AM
About twenty five years ago, I attended the funeral for my grandfather Huntsman in Fillmore, Utah. It had been some years since I had visited this small, central Utah town.

2013
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How Internships Matter

April 28, 2022 09:43 AM
Brian Anderson, an international relations and Russian major, did not imagine the opportunities he would be presented with when he interned with the Slavic Center for Law and Justice in Moscow, Russia.

2013
15 Min Read
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2012 Political Transition in Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula

April 28, 2022 09:56 AM
In August 2011, I attended a conference in Sweden organized by the Asan Institute for Policy Studies, a Korean think tank, and the FOI (Swedish Defense Agency).

2013
9 Min Read
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Out of Obscurity

April 28, 2022 10:57 AM
In today’s presentation, Asia will refer to the region designated by the Church as the Asia Area. This area ranges from Mongolia on the north to Indonesia on the south and from Taiwan on the east to Pakistan on the west.

2012, Issue 2
34 Min Read
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Unfortunate Brother

April 28, 2022 11:00 AM
Mr. Lee unloads the back of his small truck as a few people stand and watch. He thanks them for coming on this day. Together they begin writing “messages of love” with markers on sheets of paper.

2012, Issue 2
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Crafting a Solid Foundation in Asia

April 28, 2022 11:08 AM
I am the fourth generation of my family to live and work in China and to make China the focus of our lives’ work. My sister who has blonde hair and blue eyes would often tell people that she was half Chinese.

2012, Issue 2
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You Are What You Eat

April 28, 2022 11:14 AM
In recent years, the expression “you are what you eat” has been everywhere; it has graced book titles, magazine articles, television series, radio programs, and electronic media outlets.

2012, Issue 1
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Learning About Self and About Others

April 28, 2022 11:20 AM
In recent years, the expression “you are what you eat” has been everywhere; it has graced book titles, magazine articles, television series, radio programs, and electronic media outlets.

2012, Issue 1
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Riding the Wave of the Tunisian Revolution

April 28, 2022 11:26 AM
On Friday afternoon 14 January 2011, my husband, our two small children, and I were packing and preparing for our flight the next morning to Tunisia.

2012, Issue 1
5 Min Read
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Challenges, Opportunites, and The International Church

April 28, 2022 11:35 AM
I must say whenever I hear the phrase: “going through the front door” or some variation of it in connection with the expansion of the Church, I ask myself why the Lord, or His Church would ever go through any other than the front door.

2011
26 Min Read
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ISP + NAFSA

April 28, 2022 11:40 AM
Through their involvement with NAFSA, BYU has an increased ability to make a difference in the world of international education and has gained an international reputation for their academic programs abroad for students...

2011
6 Min Read
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Fear, Failure, and Faith

April 28, 2022 11:44 AM
I remember approaching graduation from the Kennedy Center with a feeling of abject terror. I’m sure part of it was unpaid parking tickets or library fees that I’d have to cover before I got my diploma.

2011
10 Min Read
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25th Anniversary Retrospective

April 28, 2022 11:58 AM
In November 2008, we had the pleasure of hosting an anniversary program and dinner in recognition of the Kennedy Center’s twenty-fifth anniversary. Our keynote speaker was Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, who presided over the creation of the center in 1983 as BYU’s president.

2010
11 Min Read
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Middle East Perspective

April 28, 2022 12:04 PM
Historically, Brigham Young University has not had a program focusing on the modern Middle East. After 9/11, the day that President Bush declared that the U.S. was sending troops into Afghanistan, we began to rethink that.

2010
9 Min Read
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We Have a Lot to Learn from Development

April 28, 2022 12:16 PM
I remember there was a great celebration when the San Pedro Fishermen’s Cooperative received its license from the Department of Commerce. They hadn’t asked for a fish and surely didn’t need me to teach them how to fish.

2008
13 Min Read
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The Academy's Potential in International Development

April 28, 2022 12:21 PM
For too long, the academic field of international development has been characterized by disciplinary claims to exclusive truths frequently resulting in petty academic battles and sophomoric snubbings.

2008
3 Min Read
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Making the Connection

April 28, 2022 12:27 PM
One of the newest BYU organizations to become involved with both domestic and international development is the Center for Economic Self-Reliance, founded in 2003.

2008
1 Min Read
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Notes on International Development

April 28, 2022 12:34 PM
The literature on international development is generally pretty pessimistic, perhaps because the problems are so daunting and difficult to address, failures have such enormous consequences for poor people, and governments give this issue low priority.

2008
4 Min Read
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Save the World

April 28, 2022 12:43 PM
Development education, or the use of education as a tool for human capital development, is an intensely interesting and diverse field.

2008
4 Min Read
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Pt. 1, Careers and Trends

April 28, 2022 12:53 PM
A couple of years ago I was sitting on a flight to Hawaii for a professional conference. Being somewhat a social person, I struck up a conversation with the gentleman sitting next to me and asked him, “Are you going for business or pleasure?"

2007, Issue 2
17 Min Read
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Pt. 2, Careers and Trends

April 28, 2022 01:06 PM
Growing up, my dad had a stable teaching job with state health benefits. And with my doctor/uncle living next door, my family had few run-ins with illness that couldn’t be attended to by heading next door when Uncle Kim’s Jeep pulled up in the driveway.

2007, Issue 2
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Pt. 3, Careers and Trends

April 28, 2022 01:08 PM
In 2004, my family and I returned to Utah, when I became Barrick Gold Corporation’s regional manager for Continuous Improvement.

2007, Issue 2
11 Min Read
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Pt. 1, Culture—The Vital Differences That Color Life

April 28, 2022 01:19 PM
It was still dark when Antonio sat bolt upright in his bed, eyes bulging like boiled eggs. “Did you hear that?” he asked. On cue, the Muezzin’s second call to prayer filtered through the dusty slit in the wall, our room’s only window in the misnamed Hotel Palace.

2007, Issue 1
13 Min Read
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Pt. 2, Culture—The Vital Differences That Color Life

April 28, 2022 01:24 PM
In 1669, the French playwright Molière published Tartuffe, a classic portrait of a religious shyster. By pretending to be a holy man and spiritual guide, Tartuffe almost completely swindles a gullible man’s fortune and ruins his family.

2007, Issue 1
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Pt. 3, Culture—The Vital Differences That Color Life

April 28, 2022 01:30 PM
It has become increasingly important to understand the cultural context in which U.S. foreign and defense policies operate. Our failure to anticipate the tragic terrorist attacks of 9/11 was more than a “failure of imagination,” as the 9/11 Commission formally concluded, and it was more than a failure of the intelligence community.

2007, Issue 1
11 Min Read
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The London Centre

April 28, 2022 01:40 PM
Winter evenings in England fold in with soft gray and blue tones and a breeze of cool air, often accompanied by a light drizzle. Streetlamps cast halos of light, and the cozy city buzz drones on as people pop umbrellas, board double-decker buses, or duck into Tube stations heading for home.

2006
22 Min Read
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A Walk in the Park?

April 28, 2022 01:52 PM
This statement captures the feelings of an academic who began visiting London as part of BYU’s Study Abroad Program, visits that ignited a passion for London and resulted in the 2004 publication of Walking through London’s History.

2006
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Rural Mexico Through Juan Rulfo's Lens

April 28, 2022 01:59 PM
Few places in the world remain both unexplored and unfamiliar to people. One such place is rural Mexico, an area that is rapidly changing and rarely seen by outsiders. Fortunately, the photography of Juan Rulfo (1917–86) offers a unique glimpse into rural Mexico.

2006
4 Min Read
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Andrew Bay

April 28, 2022 02:08 PM
What began as cultural briefs for leaders in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has grown into a thriving educational product line used by K–12 educators, corporations, government, and the military.

2006
9 Min Read
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Art and Politics in Mao's China

April 28, 2022 02:21 PM
Art is a medium of expression where the individual and culture come together. What happens to the individual artist when culture becomes a tool of the government? How does politics impact art as an expression of the times? Can art and culture survive and overcome government repression?

2005, Issue 2
11 Min Read
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Who Is My Neighbor?

April 28, 2022 02:26 PM
Ancient and modern prophets have repeatedly reminded us of the sacred responsibility we have toward each other. The opportunity and obligation to serve our neighbors is codified in the great commandment...

2005, Issue 2
14 Min Read
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Divine Coincidences

April 28, 2022 02:31 PM
Factors that contributed to the Islamic Translation Series add up to far more than just chance in the mind of Daniel C. Peterson, professor of Islamic studies at BYU. Since the earliest conception in 1993, Peterson has felt the hand of providence in his work.

2005, Issue 2
17 Min Read
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United States and Russia

April 28, 2022 02:36 PM
After a brief fling with democracy and post-9/11 solidarity with the United States, Russia seems to be slipping back onto more familiar ground.

2005, Issue 1
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Muscles From Brussels?

April 28, 2022 02:40 PM
I come to this area of international politics from a backwards part of western Europe, which has retained the integrity of its own local quarrel over hundreds of years. The whole history of European integration is a triumph of ideas over adversity.

2005, Issue 1
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A New Focus on Europe

April 28, 2022 02:45 PM
A recent boom in BYU’s foreign studies originated from the Kennedy Center. By encouraging students and faculty alike to think Europe, the Center for the Study of the Europe (CSE) has sparked, maintained, and expanded research activities across campus.

2005, Issue 1
13 Min Read
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Life in a Global Village

April 28, 2022 02:51 PM
When I was on the Arizona regional board of the National Conference of Christians and Jews (now the National Conference for Community and Justice), I received a book entitled People written and illustrated by Peter Spier.

2004, Issue 2
26 Min Read
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Socially Engaged Spiritually

April 28, 2022 02:56 PM
A major challenge, some would call it a dilemma, that the world faces is how to be modern. The discourse of development, especially through the concept of modernization, is decidedly biased. It can be said that the intellectual precursor of modernization was the European enlightenment.

2004, Issue 2
18 Min Read
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Beyond the Border

April 28, 2022 03:03 PM
Exposure cultivates understanding. That is the guiding force behind Beyond the Border, a five-film series produced by the Kennedy Center in partnership with Combat Films and Research (CF&R).

2004, Issue 2
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American Primacy and Anti-americanism in World Politics

April 28, 2022 03:09 PM
My comments reflect changes in U.S. policy since 9/11 and are organized around two topics that are closely related politically, though analytically distinct. One is American primacy, and the other is Anti-Americanism.

2004, Issue 1
23 Min Read
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From a Trickle to a Flood

April 28, 2022 03:20 PM
Keith Mines, a BYU alumnus (1982) with over twelve years of experience in the Foreign Service, volunteered from August 2003 to February 2004 as the provincial governance coordinator in the Sunni Triangle of Iraq.

2004, Issue 1
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A Babe Upon Its Mother's Lap

April 28, 2022 03:23 PM
In a real sense, human societies, whether portrayed as developed or developing, are designated in the prefatory section of the Doctrine and Covenants simply as “Babylon the Great,” whose fundamental tendency is to “seek not the Lord to establish his righteousness.”

2004, Issue 1
30 Min Read
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A Reader's Journey

April 28, 2022 03:36 PM
From the history of the world to the current terrorist threat, the campus community is invited on a reader’s journey to explore issues, principles, and conditions facing mankind in the twenty-first century through the Kennedy Center’s Book of the Semester.

2004, Issue 1
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David Matthew Kennedy

April 28, 2022 03:38 PM
David M. Kennedy, born 21 July 1905 in Randolph, Utah, lived his life committed to principle, service, and excellence.

2003, Issue 2
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Pt. 1, Fostering a Global Vision

April 28, 2022 03:30 PM
Ray C. Hillam took over the reins at the Kennedy Center in 1985. He brought a unique perspective to the role of director, thanks in part to firsthand experience with international politics and conflict.

2003, Issue 2
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Pt. 2, Fostering a Global Vision

April 28, 2022 03:14 PM
Ray C. Hillam took over the reins at the Kennedy Center in 1985. He brought a unique perspective to the role of director, thanks in part to firsthand experience with international politics and conflict.

2003, Issue 2
21 Min Read
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Pt. 3, Fostering a Global Vision

April 28, 2022 03:04 PM
When Donald B. Holsinger became director of the Kennedy Center in 1997, he brought with him a wealth of experience.

2003, Issue 2
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A Future of Possibilities

April 28, 2022 02:55 PM
Decades before the official history began to be logged on the time line, dedicated, visionary faculty and administrators moulded proposals for courses and programs—often compromising what they wanted with what the budget would support. Two decades of official Kennedy Center history has now passed, and the center has recently been given administrative support to ensure its continued progress.

2003, Issue 2
17 Min Read
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The Paradox of Religious Pluralism and Religious Uniqueness

April 28, 2022 02:49 PM
Religious, as well as social, economical, or political, pluralism developed from the beginning in one form or another. The one religious form, the original, came by direct revelation from God giving knowledge of who to worship and how to worship and giving mankind a plan of happiness, also called the plan of redemption.

2003, Issue 1
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What's So Great About America?

April 28, 2022 02:42 PM
What I’d like to talk about is the special role of America in the world today, and the enormous controversy which surrounds the position of America as the world’s only super power.

2003, Issue 1
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A Creative Approach to Making International Friends

April 28, 2022 02:37 PM
The BYU performing groups have touched the lives of millions across the world beginning in the early 1960s.

2003, Issue 1
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Sharing in the Exhilaration

April 28, 2022 02:31 PM
Imagine that Adam and Eve must have been extraordinary poets. Their original and pure language of nature was undisturbed by custom and the past. When they spoke and named animals and plants for the first time, they brought those things into a living intimacy with their own lives, and the language they used reflected their own history and place within the created world they had been gifted by a loving Father.

2002, Issue 2
12 Min Read
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Wadi Hydrology

April 28, 2022 02:21 PM
Water is fundamental to quality of life and a decent standard of living. Throughout the ages, peoples of the world have settled near water sources and thrived when there was abundance. Because of the rich, fertile Nile valley, Egypt, often considered the cradle of civilization, developed a society with diverse occupations.

2002, Issue 2
13 Min Read
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Who's Next?

April 28, 2022 02:14 PM
The densely populated archipelago of Indonesia has more explosive volcanoes, major earthquakes, and destructive tsunamis than any other nation.

2002, Issue 2
20 Min Read
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GOT MILK?

April 28, 2022 02:09 PM
One of the most successful ad campaigns ever launched in the United States features the ubiquitous milk moustache on celebrities’ upper lips with the simple caption “Got Milk?”

2002, Issue 1
14 Min Read
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Rehearsing American Literature in Spain

April 28, 2022 02:00 PM
My three weeks in Spain in May 2001 came about because of my work on American novelist Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop

2002, Issue 1
7 Min Read
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Bricks and Wild Animals

April 28, 2022 01:51 PM
The Mukono Town Academy (MTA), a secondary school of approximately five hundred students, is located in Mukono Town, an agricultural base of around 300,000 people. The school was co-founded and is now owned by Christopher Mugimu, a native Ugandan and doctoral candidate in educational leadership and foundations at BYU.

2002, Issue 1
12 Min Read
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A Tale of Two Cities

April 28, 2022 01:38 PM
Many communities are recognizing that economic growth, as currently practiced, has many perils. Well-intended efforts to stimulate economic growth and to create jobs in the community, often result in unforeseen costs that may diminish or negate the good created by the jobs. This is a preliminary report on an early phase of a larger project to put decision-making tools in practicing managers’ hands that will help them understand the long run ecologic consequences as well as the short run consequences of economic development strategies and policies.

2001, Issue 2
25 Min Read
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Islam and Western Culture

April 28, 2022 01:31 PM
Islam’s relationship with the West, though it goes far into antiquity, has been overburdened with rivalries and marred by conflicts.

2001, Issue 2
27 Min Read
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The Shrinking Planet

April 28, 2022 01:24 PM
In May 2001, Brigham Young University sent out its fourth group of undergraduate business students to Asian sites: Tokyo, Singapore, Vietnam, Beijing, and Hong Kong.

2001, Issue 2
14 Min Read
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Biodiversity Firsthand

April 28, 2022 01:14 PM
Biodiversity—a relatively new word in the English language that is unfamiliar to most—is simply a contraction of biological diversity that all of us encounter personally on a daily basis.

2001, Issue 1
27 Min Read
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Interdisciplinary Focus

April 28, 2022 01:04 PM
Ben, a bright, but unfocused university student, recently shared his academic desires with me. I had known of his phenomenal abilities with computers, his excellent people skills, his unbounded love for learning, and his never-ending questions.

2001, Issue 1
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Deep Focus

April 28, 2022 12:58 PM
China, Jordan, and Ukraine may not seem to have much in common, but for two years they have been linked through at least one avenue: BYU. To become better known and understood in the international arena, the university has targeted these three countries to be part of BYU’s “Special Country Focus” (SCF).

2001, Issue 1
9 Min Read
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Teachers in China

April 28, 2022 12:51 PM
Teaching is more than “going by the book”—using overheads and textbook demonstrations— and, in this case, more than teaching English. It is sharing hope and imparting skills which open the door of opportunity to many who may not have otherwise entered it.

2000
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Tracing History in Arabian Bountiful

April 28, 2022 12:43 PM
Twenty-six hundred years ago, a brisk trade in frankincense put caravans on the desert and ships on the sea.

2000
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