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...Iraqi oil-for-food program. Rudd is a Christian who is comfortable speaking about his faith. His early life was thrown into turmoil when his farmer father was killed in a car accident before Rudd reached his teens. He went to university in Canberra and majored in Asian studies, becoming a sinologist and foreign affairs official. Not naturally gregarious, seen by his party pals as aloof and academic, Rudd has worked hard to raise his profile at grass-roots level...
...mobile phones, six independent TV stations have launched since 2002 and 16 private banks are expected to be open by early next year. "It's not like investing in Austria or the United Arab Emirates where things are pretty straightforward," says Mohammad Rafi Fazil, economics officer for the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Afghanistan. "Given that we are only just emerging from a postconflict situation, things are very complicated. But the possibilities are endless if you are able to adapt...
Mark Adomanis’s column “Affirmative Action Returns” (November 30) is both thoughtful and intelligent. As an immigrant, with Asian and Hispanic roots, I have often wondered who made the decision that Asians were over-represented and, as such, were not considered part of the minority pool in the college admissions process. I suspect that those in the positions of power, dare I say, the white power elite, probably made those decisions. What is infuriating about this process is commentators’ tendency to generalize. First, there are many different subcultures that tend...
...campaign manager Katherine A. Beck ’08, his staff is more than 150 strong.Petersen has been endorsed by the Association of Black Harvard Women and the Harvard College Democrats, and Hadfield has picked up the endorsements of the Black Students Association, the Harvard Republican Club, the South Asian Association, and The Harvard Crimson. But among UC insiders, the Petersen-Sundquist ticket has swept the competition, garnering the support of current UC president John S. Haddock ’07, vice president Annie R. Riley ’07, and other prominent council members including Treasurer Benjamin W. Milder...
...imply freedom, the choreography felt limited as many dancers repeated similar motions throughout. The dance that followed, “Fanaa,” once again displayed strong cultural influences. Both the choreographer T. Riya Sen ’07 and the dancers were members of the South Asian Dance Company. The show was clean, but was also more subdued in comparison to Bhangra. Whether it was due to the simpler costumes or fewer dancers, the effect was less striking. The final piece, “Deku Deku” started off with an astonishing performance by the traditional drummers...