An alarming if hopeful article on the effects global warming on Bangladesh in today’s Washington Post:

 http://http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/26/AR2007092602582_2.html

And another one from a few days ago about the role of DU in Bangladeshi politics. Is it really the students’ role to be the voice of the nation? Seems to me that there’s a lot of rot in DU.  The university that our parents attended in the political heydays of the 1960’s is nothing like today’s corruption burdened institution, each department with a full quota of political toadies of various hues. Unfortunately, it is difficult to separate students and professors genuinely committed to democratic values from partisan hacks.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/22/AR2007092201129.html

On an unrelated note, had no idea that a Bangladeshi engineer Fazlur Rahman Khan (DU alum) was the engineering genius behind the Hancock and Sears towers in Chicago. See Post article above and also below:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fazlur_Khan