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...Ezra Chen, a former assistant director-general in Taiwan’s foreign ministry, said a Harvard background has less importance in Taiwanese politics because “many of our politicians are American educated...
...swoons and emphatic shoves. At one point in the medley, Kristin E. Ing, a student at the Graduate School of Education, performs to Kline’s “She Got You” in a solo for which the non-standard vocal music in the background makes the emotion of the dance even more potent...
Kanz cites the friendships formed during these two months as “one of the things I think was a really good experience.” The diverse social background of the recruits brought together civilians who would not have mixed otherwise. He worked with someone who had recently been released from jail, and another who could barely read. Each gave Kanz a new perspective. “Some of the very best friends I made there were from completely different backgrounds,” he recalls...
Universities should be allowed to use race as a factor, because other criteria are tightly linked to students’ family background and economic status, said Orfield, professor of education and social policy at the Graduate School of Education...
...terrorist or double agent," says the State Department official. "You don't want to be training anyone who's going to wind up running back to Baghdad giving the full names of everyone he was in some training class with." Even when trust is not an issue, background checks are important; some of the most useful recruits--those with military backgrounds--are likely to have unsavory histories as Saddam henchmen...