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...study featured in the current issue of the UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies found that affirmative action disadvantages Asian American applicants more dramatically than any other racial group. While this may renew debates about the fairness of affirmative action policies, it should not convince us to abandon them. Colleges still have a vested interest in promoting diversity and should be able to use whatever criteria they deem necessary in order...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Affirmatives of Affirmative Action | 2/19/2008 | See Source »

...them in order to conceive of them better, but you can’t really write a part for yourself. It’s too hard to do that.RR: In ten words or less: the plot of Fable Attraction.BP: Um, ok, here we go. Wooden boy finds dad. Asian communist barkeep. Hilarity ensues. RR: Before your involvement in the Pudding, did you have any experience wearing high heels or other women’s clothing?BP: No, absolutely not. In high school, I played an obese southern girl in a play, which was really fun, but that...

Author: By Jeffrey W. Feldman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ROVING REPORTER: Fable Attraction | 2/15/2008 | See Source »

Cash for Capture The State Department is so confident that some unnamed Southeast Asian terrorists will be nabbed "in the near future" that its new budget asks for an extra $6 million to pay for their capture via its Rewards for Justice tips program. There are more than $704 million of outstanding reward offers worldwide. A few of the region's most-wanted extremists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Briefing | 2/14/2008 | See Source »

...during the school day. They plan by themselves and get a few hit-and-run workshops after school, with little opportunity to share knowledge or improve their practice. In a study of mathematics teaching and learning in Japan, Taiwan and the U.S., James Stigler and Harold Stevenson noted that "Asian class lessons are so well crafted [because] there is a very systematic effort to pass on the accumulated wisdom of teaching practice to each new generation of teachers and to keep perfecting that practice by providing teachers the opportunities to continually learn from each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How They Do It Abroad | 2/14/2008 | See Source »

...timetable won't be revealed until September, which many people interpret as a sign the poll could be delayed again. Rising inflation has people grumbling as well. "Anticipation of the rising prices of essentials has Bangladeshis really worried," says Indra Nath Mukherji, an Honorary Visiting Professor of South Asian Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University. "People are also saying elections should be taking place soon, they want the chance to have a say." The revelations of Khalil's treatment are only likely to add to the growing sense of disgruntlement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Charges of Torture in Bangladesh | 2/14/2008 | See Source »

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