Word: asianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...awful as the Asian correction is, it was, in a sense, inevitable because those economies had trundled billions of dollars into useless real estate and industrial development. "In general," said Summers, 44, as he sat in the Frankfurt airport last fall recovering from a hectic trip to Moscow, "we start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient." Over dinner recently someone congratulated Rubin on the booming U.S. economy and pointed out that one international magazine had been uniformly wrong in its predictions of a complete global collapse. The Secretary wasn...
...friends who had been frustrated by the same curriculum gap joined forces last spring and formed the South Asian Studies Initiative (SASI...
Members of SASI, an offshoot of the South Asian Association (SAA), hope to educate the Harvard community about a region inhabited by one-fifth of the world's population. With a sass befitting its anti-establishment stance,SASI members have taken education into their ownhands with letter-writing campaigns and otherpolitical tactics...
Communication is SASI's first step. They wantto spark interest in South Asian topics. Sanskrit101 has just not made the cut on enough students'shopping lists. Table-tents, posters and e-mailmessages advertise various courses offered by theGraduate School of Education and the KennedySchool of Government...
SASI's efforts are making waves. The grouprecently met with Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R.Knowles, Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III andthe Harvard Foundation on Intercultural and RaceRelations. Agarwal says she is hopeful even for aconcentration in South Asian studies in the nearfuture...