Word: asia
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...taught by a professor? For most of us the answer is possibly one, and probably none. And many of us have plenty of friends at other schools that regale us with stories of intimate classes with wonderful professors--not just on obscure topics like medical developments in Asia Minor in the eleventh century, but on subjects at the heart of their liberal arts education...
More than a thousand people crowded the halls of the Business School yesterday for the beginning of the 1997 Harvard Asia Pacific Business Conference, which focuses on the approaching reversion of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China...
High-ranking dignitaries from numerous Asian countries converged with Harvard's top professors of Asian affairs to discuss economic and political changes currently underway in Asia...
...warned that the overall relationship to China was too important to be held hostage to one issue. Translation: the U.S. is anxious to expand trade with a market that bought goods made in America worth almost $12 billion in 1995. Sidney Jones of the advocacy group Human Rights Watch Asia calls this approach schizophrenic. "The report shows that the State Department knows exactly how bad the situation is," she says. "But when Albright goes to Beijing at the end of February she will only pull a rabbit out of the hat, a small concession that lets everybody off the hook...
...priority for Senator William Cohen, who was confirmed Wednesday to head the Pentagon. The former Republican congressman told his colleagues in an equally amicable confirmation hearing that the U.S. cannot be "the world's policeman" and should limit its commitment in Bosnia. Instead he called for turning attention to Asia: "Our interests are potentially jeopardized by the danger of instability and rivalry among major regional powers...