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Some students on Harvard’s own campus believed the farce, and news outlets such as China’s state-owned Xinhua News Agency reported on the agreement. According to the Xinhua article, the Shaanxi International Trade College believed that Harvard would send teaching materials, equipment, teachers, and students through an exchange program with the Chinese school...
...never intended to have it open to pre-frosh—that was part of the agreement with the Dean’s office,” Epstein said...
...with his family at the age of 10 in 1946. The meeting inevitably kindled memories of the last time the KMT and the Communist Party joined forces?in 1937 to fight the Japanese?and the 1945 meeting in which Mao Zedong and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek reached a shaky agreement, which collapsed into the final four years of civil war that forced the KMT to Taiwan...
...AXUM OBELISK, an Ethiopian national treasure; after almost 70 years standing in Rome's Piazza di Porta Capena; in Axum, Ethiopia. The 24-m.-high, 160-ton structure was looted by Italian forces on the orders of Mussolini in 1937, and remained in Rome despite a 1947 U.N. agreement mandating its return. At an emotional reception for the obelisk, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi hailed it as "a symbol of [Ethiopia's] identity...
...commanded from 1958 to 1966, to its rapid, preemptive victory in the six-day Arab-Israeli war. Later, as an ardent peace advocate, he met with Palestinians, vocally criticized hardliners and, through his rapport with then-Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, helped cement that country's historic 1979 peace agreement with Israel...