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Something else is appealing. Not for readers, who she says don’t care very much at all about her educational background, but for the general public. She believes she was singled out for the Time profile and other publicity because of the Ivy League-meets-Regency factor. “You find this romance novelist whose gone to Harvard and Yale, and that makes you as an entity more understandable,” Pottinger says...
...United States has provided foreign students with world-class opportunities in higher education. In some rare occasions, however, our hospitality is abused, as some students return home to put their skills to work for unfriendly foreign governments. A senior official at the Federal Bureau Investigation (FBI), speaking on background last week to The New York Times, confirmed that the Chinese government recruits a handful of students in the U.S. to gather information in disciplines like nuclear physics, in order to strengthen China’s weapons arsenal...
...efforts aimed at recruiting Chinese students as potential informants about the development of China’s nuclear arsenal. The information these students can provide might prove essential in preventing nuclear proliferation and keeping all Americans safe from global threats. A second official, also speaking on background, told The Times that these recruiting efforts come in the wake of “a more focused, more directed and more prioritized collection effort” by the Chinese government to grab American technology. It is our role as Americans confronted with such a dangerous reality to praise our government in these...
...guide will include listings of Harvard organizations and resources, Boston-area institutions and cultural events, a history of Latinos at Harvard, statistics on faculty of Hispanic background and even essays and poems...
...Each of the actors is a fully qualified dramaturg, fully qualified director,” Guest said of the extensive background work. The company members don’t divide up the work the way many theater companies do, instead performing the necessary tasks collaboratively...