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U.S. Takes Steps to Simplify Voting From Abroad
By BRIAN KNOWLTON
Two bills have been introduced aiming at simplifying voter registration, expanding voter education, and ensuring that expatriates’ ballots are counted.
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The Possessed
By ARTHUR LUBOW
Should Yale University return its relics of Machu Picchu? And who in Peru would actually benefit if it does?
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INTERNATIONAL
As Japan Ages, Universities Struggle to Fill Classrooms
By MARTIN FACKLER
Japan has one of the oldest systems of higher education in Asia, but its universities are scrambling to find new ways to attract students.
INTERNATIONAL
Africa’s Storied Colleges, Jammed and Crumbling
By LYDIA POLGREEN
Far from being a repository of the continent’s hopes for the future, Africa’s decrepit universities have become hotbeds of discontent.
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BOOKS
The Cost of Utopia
By MARK LILLA
In rejecting the Enlightenment for a hazy German Idealism, 19th-century Russian thinkers did their country no favors.
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