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...heart of downtown Reykjavik sits a freshly painted pink building. The innards of the two-story metal structure have been gutted to make way for smooth concrete floors, diamond white walls and racks of clothing from Icelandic retailer, Nikita. Just a year ago, the same building was being readied for demolition. In its place were plans for an ultramodern shopping mall stretching several blocks across the capital's commercial district. Then came the crash...
...China's pre-eminence in Southeast Asia isn't yet a foregone conclusion. Countries like Vietnam, which was colonized by its northern neighbor for a millennium, are wary of China's growing footprint. And in nations like Indonesia, Burma and Cambodia, it wasn't so long ago that the economic dominance of local Chinese communities catalyzed bloody pogroms and discriminatory laws against the ethnic Chinese. Despite the occasional bursts of anti-Chinese violence, businesses in Thailand and Indonesia are still disproportionately controlled by overseas Chinese today. As a consequence, even as Beijing pleads that it's only interested in trade...
...weekends ago, I went to you looking for help. I had dislocated my shoulder dancing. Yes, dancing. One too-forceful fist pump, and out popped my shoulder. After several unsuccessful attempts at popping it back into place on my own, I decided to go to you, even though I knew that you usually don’t handle shoulder dislocations. I guess I just thought that having you help call an ambulance might be preferable to having to figure everything...
...charity effort at heart, Project East was first conceived by Timothy M. Parent ’09 and Kristin S. Kim ’09 three years ago. The runway show aims to expose Harvard students to cutting-edge fashion by featuring established Asian designers and student designers who attend Parsons School of Design or Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). By donating the proceeds of the event to benefit the China Tomorrow Education Foundation, Project East will help build a school in rural China. Organized by executive producers Tamara Harel-Cohen and Alexandra Clarke, Project East will take place...
...Four different families, practicing four different faiths - all compelled to flee a half-century ago because of their religion ... Even when my wife fasts for Yom Kippur, and my father-in-law fasts for Ramadan, I get to stuff my face with samosas all day." - Joking about his family's Jewish, Muslim and Hindu background in a speech to the South Asian Bar Association of New York in 2007 (New York Times...