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As part of the Office of InternationalPrograms’Ambas-

sadorial Lecture Series, His Excellency Jean-David Levitte,

Ambassador of France to the United States, spoke in March

during National Foreign Language Week on “France and the

UnitedStatesinaWorldTransformed.”

TheOfficeofInternationalProgramsisparticularlygrateful

toDr. JosephBrami of theDepartment of French and Italian

for his role in arranging the lecture. Ambassador Levitte was

introducedbyDr.JamesF.Harris,DeanoftheCollegeofArts

andHumanities,standinginforUniversityofMarylandPresident

C.D.Mote,Jr.

Ambassador Levitte began his speech by recounting his

personalexperienceoftheterroristattacksofSeptember11,2001;

as the French ambassador to the United Nations, he saw the

destruction fromhisNewYorkofficewindow.Recalling that

“at thatmoment, thewholeworldwaswith theUnitedStates,”

LevittealludedtotheLe Mondenewspaperheadline,“WeAreAll

Americans.”

Theambassadorthendescribedhow,asthatmonth’spresident

oftheUNsecuritycouncil,heintroducedadraftresolutionthat

changedinternationallawontwoissues.Itestablishedthatthis

kindofterroristactwouldbeconsideredanactofwar,andthat

thevictimswouldbeallowedtostrikenotonlyagainstthosewho

committedtheact,butalsoagainststatesthatharboredthemand

thosewhofinanced them.Levittedescribed the successof this

resolutionas“arealbreakthroughintheemotionoftheday,”and

saidthatit“pavedthewaytothewarinAfghanistan,withFrance

participatingfully.”

Noting that on September 11 and during the following

monththewholeworldwaswiththeU.S.,theambassadorposed

thequestion,“SowhathappenedwithIraq?”Heattributedthe

divergenceofopinionoverIraqtodifferencesontwoissues:one,

howbesttofightterrorism,andtwo,ideasonpower-sharingand

multilateralism.

Addressing the issue of terrorism, Ambassador Levitte

said thatalthoughhe,asa resultofhisownexperience,“fully

understand[s]thatAmericaisatwar,”theoverallmoodinEurope

isdifferentbecausepeopletheredidnotregisterthehugeshock

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and U.S.-French Relations

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ofSeptember11asdirectly.Whiletheysupporteradicating

thescourgeofterrorism,Europeansbelievethatthisentails

anumberofmeasures,suchassharingintelligence,usingthe

policeandjudicialsystemstoidentifyandcondemnterror-

ists,andattackingthesystemoffinancingterrorists,andthat

forceshouldbeusedonlyasalastresort.

Theambassadorwentontooutlinethedevelopmentof

theEuropeanUnionanditsdesirefora“commondestiny.”

HesaidthatEuropeannationsaresharingtheirsovereignty

onadailybasis,thuscreating“aworldthatismultilateralin

essence,”andthatasaresultEuropeanslookfor“multilateral

solutions.”Heremarkedwithasmilethatsharingsovereignty

isnotsomethingtowhichAmericansareaccustomed.

TracingthespecificsoftheU.S.-Francedivergenceover

Iraq,AmbassadorLevitterecountedthatPresidentBushhad

cometotheUNanddelivereda“wonderfulspeech”propos-

ingtodisarmIraqpeacefullyifpossible,andifnot,bythe

useofforce.HeidentifiedthecrucialmomentasNovember

2002, afterarms inspectorshadbeen sent toBaghdadand

“slowly,SaddamHussein [had] started tocooperate”—and

then,atthesametime,theU.S.begandeployingthousands

oftroopswiththeideaofexertingpressureonhim.Levitte

saidthatiftheU.S.haddeployedonly50,000troops,“there

wouldhavebeennowar,”butthatwith300,000troops,“the

pressureinWashingtontouseforcebecameirresistible.”

Levitte said that the Iraq war, though now past, has

raisedlargergeopoliticalissues:“Whatisatstakenowisthe

futureofrelationsbetweentheMuslimworldandtheWest.”

Becauseofthis,Franceiswilling“tocooperatefully,”and

althoughitisnotpreparedtosendtroops,itsupportstrain-

ingandequippingthenewIraqiforces.Therefore,Levitte

said, Iraq is“slowlybecominganelementof cooperation”

betweentheU.S.andFrance.

DiscussingitsgoaloftheEuropeanUnion,theambas-

sadorsaidthatitwasnot(asportrayedbytheAmericanpress)

toprovide a counterweight toAmericandomination,but

rather tomaintain peace inEurope and build a common

destiny and future. He said that the EU had achieved

“amazing success” so far,but stillhadmore toaccomplish,

andspokeofitscurrenteffortstoadoptaconstitution.He

acknowledgedthatwithregardtoIraq,theEuropeannations

had“failedmiserably” toadoptacommon foreignpolicy,

andthatthiswassomethingonwhichtheyneededtowork.

ContrastingtheEU’spopulationof450million—about

fiftypercentmore thanthatof theU.S.—with itsdefense

budget,whichishalfthesize,LevittesaidthattheEUhad

to create a collectivedefense.Hemaintained that it is in

theinterestoftheUnitedStatestohaveastrongpartnerin

Europe.

ConcedingthattheU.S.andFrancehadbeenthrough

aroughperiodinrelations,AmbassadorLevittesaidthathe

felttheFrenchpositionwasbetterunderstoodnowthanit

hadbeenoneyearago.Heconcludedhisspeechbyexpress-

ing feelingsofhopeas the twocountries looktoward the

celebrationofthe60thanniversaryofD-Daylaterthisyear.

Afterward, he took questions from the audience on such

variedtopicsasnation-building,thepoliticalcrisisinHaiti,

thecontroversyovertheveilinFrenchpublicschools,issues

ofsecularandreligiousgovernmentsintheMiddleEast,and

anti-SemitisminFrance.

launchedin2001,theAmbassadoriallectureSerieshasbroughtto

campus the ambassadors of China, Bangladesh, Brazil, Argentina,

Denmark,Afghanistan, Israel,Egypt,Turkey,andFrance.Formore

informationontheseries,seewww.intprog.umd.edu/amb.html.

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In March,aone-daysymposiumtitled“CommodorePerry

andBeyond:150YearsofU.S.-JapanRelations”tookplacein

McKeldinLibrary.ThisconferenceexaminedJapan’smid-19th-

centuryopeningtotheoutsideworldaftercenturiesofisolation,

its subsequentmodernization,and theextent towhich these

eventsresultedfromU.S.navalofficerCommodoreMatthew

C.Perry’s1853-54expedition,whichforcedJapantoenterinto

tradeanddiplomaticrelationswiththeUnitedStates.

The large number of sponsors for the event included the

CommitteeonEastAsianStudies, theDepartmentofAsian

andEastEuropeanLanguagesandCultures,theUndergradu-

ateCertificateProgram inEastAsianStudies, theOfficeof

InternationalPrograms,theDepartmentofHistory,theCenter

forHistoricalStudies,theDepartmentofWomen’sStudies,the

HonorsProgram,theCollegeofArtsandHumanities,andthe

UniversityofMarylandLibraries.

Intheirwelcomingremarks,Dr.JamesF.Harris,Deanof

theCollegeofArtsandHumanities,andDr.CharlesB.Lowry,

DeanofLibraries,notedthattheUniversityofMaryland’sJapa-

nese-relatedprogramsarebecomingstrongerastheresultofa

recentFreemanFoundationgrant,andthat theUniversity is

privilegedtobethehomeoftheGordonW.PrangeCollection,

theworld’smostcomprehensivecollectionofprintpublications

issuedinJapanfrom1945to1949.

ThekeynotespeakerforthesymposiumwasDr.FredG.

Notehelfer,ProfessorofHistoryandDirectoroftheCenterfor

JapaneseStudiesattheUniversityofCaliforniaatLosAngeles.

Examiningtrendsofmodernizationthatwerealreadyinplace

inthe1840sandearly1850s,hislectureposedthehypothetical

question,“WhatIfPerryHadNotCometoJapan?”Notehelfer

citedwritingsbymid-19th-centurytravelerswhoobservedthe

creationinJapanofanewvaluestructurecontrarytofeudalism,

and thegrowing statusof thecommercial classvis-à-vis the

historicallyhigher-rankingwarriorclass.Discussing the rise

ofthewealthypeasantclassinruralareas,Notehelferfocused

on the tensionbetween this increasinglypowerfulperiphery

andtheestablishedcentersofpowerinEdo(nowTokyo)and

amongthesamuraiclass.

Seven other speakers addressed a range of topics, from

mid-19th-centuryJapanesemedicalknowledgetoU.S.-Japan

relationsinthenewmillennium.Dr.MiyukiYoshikami,ofthe

UniversityofMaryland’sHonorsProgram,spokeonJapanese

koto music. Other speakers were Dr. Ann Jannetta (Univer-

sityofPittsburgh),Dr.KevinMurphy(MillikinUniversity),

Dr.WaynePatterson(St.NorbertCollege),Dr.HelenHopper

(UniversityofPittsburgh),Dr.YoshikuniIgarashi(Vanderbilt

University),andDr.MichaelAuslin(YaleUniversity).

The conference also included a preview by UM’s

Dr. Marlene J. Mayo of a website under development for

undergraduate students, “Occupied Japan, 1945-1952: Class,

Race,andGender.”Mayo,whomoderatedthesymposium,is

aprofessorofhistoryandaffiliateoftheMarylandInstitutefor

TechnologyintheHumanities.

Symposium Examines 150 Years of U.S.-Japan Relations

UClA’sDr.FredG.Notehelferdeliverstheconference’skeynotespeech.


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On March 11 , the Institute forGlobalChineseAffairs

held a forum titled “Taiwan’s Upcoming Election: Issues,

Approaches,andChallenges.”Threespeakersdiscussedthe

March20election:Dr.Tieh-linYin,founderoftheInstitute

forSinoStrategicStudies;Dr.Chung-chianTeng,aprofessor

of diplomacy at Taiwan’s National Cheng-chi University;

andHaipeiShue,apartneratWashington-basedpublicrela-

tionsfirmPacificCommunicationsandfounderofthefirst

ChineseenvironmentalNGO.Dr.ScottKastner,Assistant

Professor in the Department of Government and Politics,

chairedtheevent.

Yin described the election as “crucial,” saying that if

PresidentChenShui-bian and theDemocraticProgressive

Partyweretostayinpower,itwouldwidenthegapbetween

ChinaandTaiwanandmakefuturereunificationmorediffi-

cult.Inaddition,hesaid,aDPPvictorymightencouragethe

U.S.to“engageChinamoreaggressively.”HespokeofChina

asinneedofan“inspiringgoal”topresentbothtopeople

inTaiwanandtothoseinthemainlandwhyTaiwanshould

movetowardreunificationratherthanindependence.

Tengemphasizedtheimportanceofopinionpollsinthis

year’spresidentialelections,sayingthatbothsideswereclosely

monitoringthem.HetracedpoliticaleventsinTaiwanover

thepastsixmonths,discussingPresidentChen’scontroversial

desiretocreateanewconstitution.

ShuequestionedwhetherTaiwanhastherighttoholda

referendumonitspoliticalfuture.Atthesametime,hecriti-

cizedmainlandChinafordoingtoolittletowooTaiwanback

andofferingitmerely“unificationforthesakeofunification.”

HedescribedtheactionsoftheDPPas“disappointingand

irresponsible,” and expressed concerns that these actions

wouldforcemainlandChinatomilitarizeitself.

Following their presentations, the panelists fielded

audiencequestionsonTaiwan’sculturalandlinguisticiden-

tity,itsbargainingchipsinnegotiationswiththemainland,

the controversy over referenda, the relationship between

ethnicityandpoliticalidentityinTaiwan,andthepressure

onTaiwantoacceptthemainland’s“oneChina”policy.

TheUniversityofMaryland’sDeborahCai(Department

of Communication), James Gao (Department of History),

Ken Hunter (IGCA), and Scott Kastner (Department of

GovernmentandPolitics)wereinvitedtoTaiwantoobserve

theelections.TheyandChina TimeseditorNormanFuwere

scheduledtoappearaspanelistsattheApril7IGCAforum,

“TheTaiwanElection:Reactions,Thoughts, andObserva-

tions”;lookforcoverageofthiseventintheSummer2004

issueofMaryland International.

FormoreinformationontheInstituteforGlobalChineseAffairs,see

theIGCAwebsiteatwww.igca.umd.edu.

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Center for Teaching Excellence Provides Guidance to

South American Universities

ABOVE FacultymembersattheUniversidaddelimalisteningtoCTEkeynotepresentation

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For a number of years ,theUniversityofMaryland’s

CenterforTeachingExcellencehasbeenengagedinteaching

andconsultationinothercountries.Invitationstoworkwith

university faculty and administrators have taken CTE to

SouthAfricaandtoLatinAmerica(whereCTEhasalmost

adecadeof involvementwithaconsortiumofEcuadorean

universities),aswellasEurope.

Lastyear,Dr. JimGreenbergandDr.RobertaLavine

traveled three times to Latin America to deliver keynote

addressesatconferencesonuniversityteachingandlearning,

andtoworkwithindividualdepartmentsonspecificissues

of teaching effectiveness and innovation, assessment of

studentlearning,andenhancementoffacultydevelopment.

Greenberg is aprofessorofeducation,CTE faculty fellow,

anddirectorofCTE’s international programs;Lavine is a

professorintheDepartmentofSpanishandPortugueseand

affiliateoftheLatinAmericanStudiesCenter.

InJanuary,thetwowenttotheUniversityofConcepción

inChiletomakepresentationsonvariousaspectsofcollege

teachingandthenatureofCTE’sworkwithinauniversity

context.Previously,UniversityofConcepciónofficialshad

visitedtheUniversityofMarylandandconferredwithUM

colleaguesonsupportprogramsforunderpreparedstudents,

technologyineducation,andqualityissuesinplanningand

development.OntheirvisittoChile,GreenbergandLavine

did consultationswith anumberofdepartments andwith

theofficeoftheprovost,andgaveakeynoteaddressatthe

university’sinternationalconferenceoncollegeteaching.It

isexpectedthatthesuccessfulnatureofthisvisitwillleadto

furthercollaborationandinteractionbetweenUMandthe

UniversityofConcepción.

In July,Greenberg andLavineventured toPeruon a

trip co-sponsored by the Latin American Studies Center.

TheiragendaattheUniversityofLimainvolvedindividual

workshops as well as consultations with the programs of

engineering,business,humanities,postgraduatestudies,and

general studies. In addition, twouniversity-widepresenta-

tionsonqualityandexcellenceinuniversityteachingwere

enthusiasticallygreetedbystanding-room-onlycrowds.As

withCTEeffortselsewhere,theworkinLimaofferedample

opportunity to share someof theoutstandingworkbeing

doneatUMinvariousdisciplines,andtoexplaintheways

inwhichCTEcollaborateswithcolleges anddepartments

to foster innovation and enhancements in teaching and

learning.

In November and December, the Latin American

work continued inQuito,Ecuador,whereGreenberg and

Lavine conducted amajor leadershipworkshop for faculty

andtopuniversityofficialsat theUniversidadTecnológica

Equinoccial.Focusingon teachingportfolios and strategic

planning, theworkshops examined evaluationof teaching

andmodesofassessingandpromotingqualityinteachingand

learning.Theformatincludedextensivehands-onworkby

participatingfaculty,andGreenbergandLavineworkedwith

theuniversityrectoranddepartmentchairstodevelopaction

plansforimplementation.

GreenbergandLavinearecurrentlyworkingwiththe

FulbrightCommissioninEcuadortocontinuetheteaching

portfolioprojectthroughoutthecountry.Theylookforward

tothisproject,aswellastofurthercollaborationsthroughout

LatinAmerica.

FormoreinformationontheCenterforTeachingExcellence,see

www.cte.umd.edu.

TOP FacultyparticipantsinQuitoworkonteachingevaluations

BOT TOM RobertalavineandJimGreenberg(eachholdingabook)

withtheRectorandotherofficialsoftheUniversidad

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In February ,Dr.SaúlSosnowski,DirectoroftheOffice

of InternationalPrograms, tookpart in apolitical science

projectinVenezuelaatthe invitationoftheU.S.Department

ofState.

At a seminar in Caracas entitled “Political Thought,”

Sosnowskiaddressedthetopicoftransitionsfromauthoritar-

iangovernments.SponsoredbytheCenterforPhilosophical

StudiesandtheCatholicUniversityAndrésBello,thesemi-

nar focusedonmodelsofdemocracy,decentralizationasa

mechanism to strengthen democracy, democracy beyond

In November 2003 theUniversityofMarylandhosted

“A Critical Dialogue on the Southern Cone,” a one-day

conference on the region comprising Argentina, Chile,

Paraguay,andUruguay.

OrganizedandchairedbyDr.LauraDemaría,Assistant

Professor in the Department

of Spanish and Portuguese,

the conference was sponsored

by the Off ice of Interna-

tional Programs; the School

ofLanguages,Literatures,and

Cultures; the Department of

Spanish and Portuguese; and

the Latin American Studies

Center.

Scholarsspecializinginthe

literature, culture, and films

of this region met to discuss

theirresearch.Participantscame

fromthemetropolitanareaandbeyond,withspeakersfrom

Georgetown,GeorgeWashington,JohnsHopkins,theU.S.

NavalAcademy,theUniversityofRichmond,theUniversity

ofVirginia,andLebanonValleyCollege.Conferencetopics

coveredabroadrange:femaleself-construction;newwork

from the McCondo literary movement; 18th- and 19th-

centurytravel literature;sciencefiction;JorgeLuisBorges

andhismentor,thepoet-philosopherMacedonioFernández;

thetheoryoftranslationandthetranslationoftheory;nine-

teenth-century declarations of independence; and current

politicaldiscourse.

Theconferencewasdesignedasanopendialogue,where

thespeakerspresentedanddefendedtheirworkinprogress

tootherspecialistsinthefield.Byfocusingexclusivelyonthe

mostcurrentresearch,themeetingservedasatestingground

fornew readings and current trends andprovidedhelpful

feedbacktothepresenters.Forgraduatestudents fromthe

DepartmentofSpanishandPortuguese,theeventprovideda

uniqueopportunitytomeetareascholars,whiletheconfer-

encebenefitedgreatlyfromtheiractiveparticipation.

Formoreinformationontheconference,seethepageonthelatin

AmericanStudiesCenter’swebsiteatwww.inform.umd.edu/las/

Events/DocumentEvents/ConoSur.htm.

OIP Director Speaks in Venezuela on Democracy

University Hosts Conference on Southern Cone Region

political mediation, and democracy as an educational and

socialprocess.ParticipantsincludedexpertsfromVenezuela,

Peru,andGermany.

DirectoroftheLatinAmericanStudiesCenteraswellas

ofOIP,SosnowskidirectsLASC’s“ACultureforDemocracy

inLatinAmerica”project.This efforthasdeveloped lines

of research that lead to concrete policy recommendations

designed to strengthen democratic institutions and Latin

America’sdemocraticpublicspace.Partofthiseffortisthe

ongoing“NewLeadershipforaDemocraticSociety”project

inArgentina.

Formoreinformationon“ACultureforDemocracyinlatinAmerica,”

seewww.inform.umd.edu/las/Projects/Democracy.

Dr.lauraDemaría

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In December 2003 andJanuary2004,Dr.O.W.Green-

berg,ProfessorintheDepartmentofPhysics,visitedIndia

onaNationalScienceFoundation-DepartmentofScience

andTechnologyofIndiaexchangegranttodoresearchon

quantum statistics with his counterpart Dr. A.K. Mishra

of theInstituteforMathematicalSciences inChennai, the

city formerly known as Madras. Greenberg specializes in

elementaryparticles.

In addition to conducting this research, during his

five-weekvisitGreenbergspokeatCalcuttaUniversity,the

IndianAssociationfortheCultivationofScience(Calcutta),

Delhi University, the Physical Research Laboratory

(Ahmadabad), theTata InstituteofFundamentalResearch

(Mumbai-Bombay), Hyderabad University, and the B.M.

BirlaScienceCenter(Hyderabad).

AttheIndianAssociationfortheCultivationofScience,

GreenbergdeliveredtheRiponProfessorshipLecture,given

annuallybyadistinguishedphysicist.AttheTataInstitute,he

spokeintheHomiBhabhaAuditoriumbeforeanaudienceof

about1500.

Physics Professor Conducts Research, Delivers Lectures in India

UM Joins with Tel Aviv University and Israeli Businesses for Research ProjectThe state of Maryland and the Israeli Electronics

Corporation have joined for a new research collaboration

project.TheJointCenterforReliableElectronicSystemswill

conductandcoordinatejointreliabilityresearchbetweenthe

UniversityofMaryland’sClarkSchoolofEngineeringand

TelAvivUniversity’sFleischmanFacultyofEngineering.

The Center’s mission is to study the reliability of

commercialoff-the-shelfpartscurrentlyusedinsophisticated

electronicsandtodevelopguidelinesforincreasinglifetime

withoutsacrificingquality.TheCenterwillalsoserveasan

academic resource for seminarsand training to Israeli and

outsidecompanieswhodesign,build,andmaintainsystems

whoseexpectedlifefarexceedsthatofthepartsfromwhich

theyarebuilt.

Dr. Joseph Bernstein, an Associate Professor of Reli-

abilityinUM’sDepartmentofMechanicalEngineering,isa

visitingprofessoratTelAvivUniversityuntilthesummerof

2004.HedescribesIsraelastheidealplaceforsuchacenter

because its economydepends onproviding productswith

longlifetimesandlowcostofmaintenance.

At the announcement of the project, Dr. Itamar

Rabinovich,presidentofTelAvivUniversity,said,“Welook

forward tomanyyearsof thiskindofmutuallybeneficial

collaborationbetweenMarylandandIsrael.”


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In November , 40 teachers and administrators from

eight South African provinces and members of the

country’sDepartmentofEducationattendedaleadership

institute at the University of Maryland’s Department

ofEducationPolicy andLeadership and theCenter for

TeachingExcellence.

Thiswasthefirstgrouptoparticipateintheprogram,

whichwillhostabout100educatorseachyear.Theleader-

shipinstituteispartofafour-yeargrantawardedbythe

UnitedStatesAgencyforInternationalDevelopmentto

PrinceGeorge’sCommunityCollegeandtheUniversity

ofMarylandtoprovideprofessionaldevelopmentoppor-

tunitiesforscienceandmathteachingmethodstoSouth

Africansecondaryschoolteachers.

AftershadowingteachersandadministratorsinMary-

landschools,thegroupparticipatedinaweeklonginstitute

oneducationalleadership.LedbyDr.JimGreenbergof

theCenterforTeachingExcellenceandDr.CarolAnne

SpreenoftheDepartmentofEducationPolicyandLead-

UM Hosts Leadership Institute for South African Teachers

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ership,theinstituteincludedsessionsonU.S.curriculum

reform,curriculumplanning,andtheory;visits to the

NationalCouncilofTeachersofMathematics and the

NationalScienceFoundation;atriptoalocalhighschool

totalkaboutitstransformationtoascience-technology

magnet; and aworkshoponhands-on teaching at the

MaterialsScienceEngineeringResourceCenter.

The next leadership institute will take place in

mid-June2004.

ABOVE,lEF T Ateamworksonanactionplantotakeback

toSouthAfrica

ABOVE,RIGHT SouthAfricanandUniversityofMaryland

participantsattheleadershipinstitute

OFNOT EF OROURIN T ERN ATION A lA lUMNI

Men’s Basketball Team

Wins ACC Championship

In March, the University of Maryland’s men’s basketball team defeated five-time defending champion Duke to win the Atlantic Coast Conference championship for the first time in 20 years.

The No. 6 seed in the tournament, UM began by narrowly beating No. 3 seed Wake Forest 87-86. The Terrapins then defeated No. 2 seed N.C. State, 85-82. In the finals, they claimed a 95-87 overtime victory over archrival Duke.

In this year’s NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament, the University of Maryland advanced to the second round, beating the University of Texas-El

Paso 86-83 before losing to Syracuse, 70-72.

PhotographbyBrucel.Schwartzman


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MARYLAND · destruction from his New York office window. Recalling that “at that moment, the whole world was with the United States,” Levitte alluded to the Le Monde newspaper