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What: SEA Night is hosted annually by the Harvard College Southeast Asian Coalition. It's a night of Southeast Asian dance, food, and music, with a guest appearance by the Brandeis Southeast Asian Club. In addition, enjoy eight courses of delicious Southeast Asian food and deserts. Om Nom Nom. Tickets are on sale for $5 at the Harvard Box Office...
...concentrated in Social Studies and East Asian Studies at Harvard, was one of the founders of the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations. He was a resident of the Currier House “ten-man” suite...
...anoint a successor to Justice John Paul Stevens, the leading liberal on the bench and a 35-year veteran of the top court, who announced last week that he will retire at the end of this term. There's already talk of potential precedents: Will Obama appoint the first Asian-American Justice? Boost the number of women on the court to a historic three? No matter whom he chooses, once his nominee is confirmed, the President will have seated as many Justices as any first-term President since Richard Nixon (who pushed through four). And we're barely into Year...
...hordes of tourists, like Xishuangbanna's capital city of Jinghong, have previously been characterized by the most boisterous water-splashing celebrations; there, children and visitors haphazardly fling containers of muddy and colored water about, rushing back and forth to restaurants and strangers' homes to refill. Anouska Komlosy, curator of Asian ethnography at the British Museum, writes that in villages just outside the capital, the splashing has typically been more subdued. This year, even the capital is likely to follow suit...
...selection of the first Asian American to the Corporation marks a milestone in the governing body’s history, and Lee’s appointment comes 10 years after the Corporation selected its first black member, Conrad K. Harper...