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...Avatar a Native American story? -Robert Thijsen, Oranjestad, Aruba Not exclusively. I think Americans locate the story there most quickly. But Avatar's now the No. 1 movie in Brazil, and Brazil has a lot of issues with the displacement of indigenous populations and deforestation. There's a tribe in India that is getting pushed off its sacred mountain for a bauxite mine. The film is hugely popular in China, and people there are getting displaced by the government to build dams. So people are relating to it from all these different perspectives. (See pictures of James Cameron's best...
...Full Throttle energy drink in one hand and a cell phone in the other, Harvard Kennedy School student Leland Cheung shared his experiences as the first Asian American Cambridge Councillor with a small group of students and community leaders in Boylston Hall yesterday...
...event was hosted by the Harvard Radcliffe Asian American Association and the Asian Pacific Americans for Progress, a national organization dedicated to supporting progressive candidates and policies...
Harvard Law School student Michelle Wu ’07, director of APAP-Greater Boston, said she decided to organize the event to link the Asian American student community and local leaders with Cheung, a figure whose accomplishment she said can serve as a model for other Asian Americans...
While Cheung said he is still in the process of figuring out the meaning of his historic election, he said that the most important vision he has for the Asian American community is to encourage this demographic to run for public office...