Word: applauding
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...camps here in California. Now talk about the "Arkansas-Asia Connection" is broadening that hatred to include all Asian Americans. I cannot help making a comparison to the anti-Jewish sentiment in Nazi Germany when Jewish people were successful in business. Today Asians are a success story. Do people applaud President Clinton for improving foreign trade with Asia? No, blinded by jealousy, they complain that it is the Asian Americans who are reaping the wealth. What have John Huang and the Lippo Group done that is so bad? They hired American expertise to build the much needed infrastructure...
...their monthly meeting last week, members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences discussed the University Benefits Committee (UBC) first annual report, which recommends that Harvard increase its pension of faculty members under age 40. Although we applaud the much-needed focus on young faculty as well as the necessary increase in their pension benefits, the recent recommendation is sorely lacking...
...applaud [Haynes] for running," Rawlins said. "I think it's time for Harvard students to have a woman as student body president...
...Harvard Project on Schooling and Children (HPSC), one of the five Interfaculty Initiatives instituted by President Neil L. Rudenstine, received a $1 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York last week in order to further its children's studies program. We applaud the Carnegie Corporation for its generous gift and we also congratulate Rudenstine and the HPSC for their efforts. We can only hope the HPSC will not be the only one of its kind...
...applaud OCS officials' recognizing that students have classes and extracurricular commitments in the afternoons and often cannot make it to the building before the reading room closes at 4:30 p.m. The extra hours may also add a modicum of calm to the reading room during frenzied afternoons, because students will realize that they can come back after dinner to look for more information. And anything that would make the atmosphere less tense in the room where students decide their futures is a positive change. It is about time the College realized that students operate on a much later schedule...