Word: abroader
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...Chai retreated to her studies. "Only losers without boyfriends needed to get A's," she writes of her peers' reverence for learning. She escaped to college in Iowa, but during a junior year abroad at Nanjing University, race again intruded: she stumbled into the city's 1988 riots that were sparked by false rumors about African students misbehaving. The incidents proved to be an epiphany. Chai discovered that her South Dakota neighbors' fears "of change, of economic uncertainty, of racial anxiety, of the unknowable future compared to the known past were the same as China's. And I realized finally...
...subtle realities of adversity, bias and inequality endured by many here. It is these subtle realities that I am sure many of the estimated 300,000 French currently residing in Britain have experienced. Darren Pipe, KENT, ENGLAND I am one of the "successful" Frenchmen who spent many years abroad and decided to return to France. I did so for good reasons, and I am still without any remorse, even after a year and a half. Pointing out France's difficulties probably attracts more readers, but what about the country's success? Raphael F. Rousseau, LYON, FRANCE Congratulations on your insightful...
...urged him to deliver a speech at Commencement. NOT ABOUT THE MONEY Chen, who received masters and doctorate degrees from SUNY Buffalo, first arrived at the superette in October 1987. The store was originally going to be a way for Chen’s brother-in-law, fresh from abroad, to earn a living despite having little knowledge of the English language. “I was an engineer when my wife’s younger brother came to the U.S.,” Chen said. “We tried to find something to keep him busy and earning...
Former Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby and three other Harvard professors led a dinner on etiquette last night, teaching students how to interact in a business setting in China and imparting wisdom on the lack of a “double-dipping ban” abroad. Kirby opened the event with a series of remarks on Chinese etiquette, but admitted to the audience that giving a speech before dinner was, in fact, not consistent with Chinese tradition. “This is actually not the kind of thing that would happen at a Chinese banquet, but we have...
...cell of 59 Saudis and non-Saudis sent members to "external training camps" to "participate in regional conflicts" - a reference to Iraq, according to Saudi sources - with the aim of facilitating "their return to the Kingdom to carry out their criminal plans." Another cell was actually formed abroad with the aim of launching attacks in Saudi Arabia and other countries...