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...leave it go, shall we say, in somewhat "collegial" a fashion. Another thing that I found invaluable is to come in with not a big team but two or three people who you could turn to. I know your reputation within your state is such that you will attract a lot of people willing to do that with you. That is a powerful place you should pivot...
While there has long been a trickle of immigration from South Asia, the big change came in 1965 when U.S. immigration statutes were liberalized to attract scientists and engineers to work in an American economy revved up by the Vietnam War. They fanned out to aircraft companies, NASA, military contractors and universities. Doctors were needed for President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society medical programs, and they were given preference too. Fewer than 2,000 people immigrated to the U.S. from India in the decade of the 1950s; in the '60s, 27,189 arrived; by the '80s, the number had jumped...
...make nice with President Kim Dae Jung. But it remains to be seen whether Kim's Chinese patrons have convinced him to emulate their "socialism with Chinese characteristics" (i.e., capitalism under Communist party dictatorship), or whether he's simply going through the motions to improve his geopolitical position and attract more aid. After all, the worst military confrontation between North and South since the 1953 cease-fire took place barely a year ago, when a Northern vessel that had infiltrated Southern waters was sunk. Still, there was no mistaking the message of reconciliation in the atmospherics he generated during...
...About 30 members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement occupy Byerly Hall for six hours to attract the attention of visiting prospective first-years and promote their campaign for a living wage at Harvard. Members refused to heed requests by the Harvard University Police Department that they leave the building...
...rare trip abroad that underscored Beijing's critical role in cajoling the reclusive Pyongyang leadership to open up to the South and to the idea of economic reform. China, which remains North Korea's only significant ally, wants to show the South Koreans - from whom Beijing hopes to attract massive investment - that China, rather than the U.S., is the best guarantor of regional security. "China certainly has a lot to gain by taking the role of regional peace broker," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "And, of course, the fact that the major threat from North Korea is weapons-technology...