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Brown offers Kim Jong-Il honorary degree in bid to one-up Yale Glen Scheuttler Issue date: 4/3/06 Section: Campus News Media Credit: Democratic People’s Republic of Korea North Korean strongman Kim Jong-Il received an honorary degree from the University Saturday. Following on the heels of Yale University's decision to admit former Taliban spokesman Rahmatullah Hashemi, Brown has awarded an honorary doctorate to reclusive North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il. Administrators said that though the move is sure to provoke controversy, the partnership demonstrates Brown's commitment to inclusion and its desire to become an internationally recognized institution. "Yale might try to bring different...

Roberta Rust performs at a lecture recital in Brazil as part of the 1985-86 Artistic Ambassador tour. Autograph seekers envelope Artistic Ambassador Robert Roux after he performed at the Cagliari Conservatory of Music in Sardinia. Five hundred people attended the concert, which was part of the 1984-85 tour. Can Music Soothe a Troubled World? In a time when much of the world is growing wary of American unilateralism, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has put $57 million in the next federal budget to win new friends through overseas exchange programs. And since some of the money is targeted for musical...