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US softball players try sports diplomacy in Cuba
Softball has been a passion for Michael Eizenberg, but the 63-year-old has never been as excited about a game as the one played Monday on a children's ball field at a faded sports complex under Havana's warm Caribbean sun. Eizenberg is one 56 Americans — all at least 55 years old — who are in Cuba this week for friendly games of slow-pitch softball against their Cuban counterparts, part of an effort to use sports to bridge decades of official mistrust between America and its southern island neighbor.
UD ranks among top institutions in study abroad
The University of Delaware now ranks third among all public and private doctorate research institutions in the United States in the number of undergraduates participating in short-term study-abroad programs, according to the Institute of International Education (IIE).
International Students Come to United States in Record Numbers, 16% Increase in New Foreign Student
The number of international students at colleges and universities in the United States increased by 8% to an all-time high of 671,616 in the 2008/09 academic year while the number of “new” international students — those enrolled for the first time at a U.S. college or university in fall 2008 — increased by 16%. This represents the largest percentage increase in international student enrollments since 1980/81.
[Sec. Clinton’s] Remarks at USA Pavillion At Shanghai Expo (VIDEO)
“We’re grateful for your generosity and your steadfast belief in the importance of the Expo, the American role here and what this USA pavilion here can do to strengthen cooperation and partnership between the American people and the people of China.” (Video)
“What you mean ‘we,’ kemosabe?”; Pakistani anti-American attitudes and their implications
Many Americans find Pakistani anti-Americanism baffling. Americans see a nation whose military was built and is supported largely by American money, facing a threat from America's own enemies, whose government professes to be an American ally at every opportunity. Certainly the drone attacks cause resentment, but they have caused far fewer deaths than attacks by extremists or the Pakistani Army's campaigns against those forces. So how, from the American perspective, is anti-American sentiment to be explained?
Where’s the value added here?
I'd say the biggest challenge for American public diplomacy today and the coming years is getting away from "battle for hearts and minds", a quaint concept the event's organizers are breathing life into. This is neither a battle to be "won" or "lost" nor do we care about their hearts and the implication of likability. The enduring struggle of the modern world is centered afar and is less about us than enemy propagandists would have us or their target audiences believe.
Top Deaflympics organizer sworn in to head cultural agency
The new minister, a political scientist who formerly served as chairman of the Taipei City Research, Development and Evaluation Commission, said he will work to convert Taiwan's cultural sector into an international competitive industry and promote Taiwan to the rest of the world through its culture.
“Meet Vietnam 2009” held in the US
The cultural exchange aimed to portray Vietnam’s traditional culture to international friends and provide updated information about the Vietnamese community in the US. It also created a good venue for businesses from both countries to share information and seek out cooperation opportunities leading to boosting economic and trade cooperation between Vietnam and the US.
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