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...twice-yearly Guangzhou Trade Fair, which began on April 15 in the capital city of a province that has reported nearly 1,300 cases of SARS. Last year, 135,000 foreign businessmen elbowed through exhibition halls at the fair, signing $18.5 billion in deals. Fewer than 8,000 people attended this year's SARS-tainted affair, which featured mainly rows of bored Chinese exhibitors from around the country. Many of them would have stayed home, too, but the government ordered them to attend. "We know the situation is bad and scary, but as a Shanghai organizer, I had to tell...
...family and fiancée flew in from Colorado to attend yesterday’s hearing...
Pinker organized a a small discussion last Tuesday for the department and memorial service open to the public last Friday. Rhee’s mother and sister flew in from Europe to attend the service...
...attempted to convince Gartner, whom he had heard was a promising prospective graduate student, to attend Harvard. Liu wrote that he feared Harvard would lose Gartner to the Scripps Research Institute in Claremont, Calif. “in part because the many unique strengths of our chemistry department do not include ideal local surfing (unless you are a penguin perhaps...
...tenure and the office of the Harvard president. The concern that some have raised, that the co-chair position will be a distraction from the president’s campus duties, is unfounded; only once a month will Summers have to forsake his Mass. Hall office to attend the Task Force’s New York City meetings. And these trips will be well worth it—engaging in the work of a public intellectual can only enrich his presidency...