Word: bolivian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rodolfo N. Cajiri '01, a Bolivian of Japanese, African, Spanish, Native American and Middle Eastern descent, says that people label him as Hispanic despite the many races represented in his background...
...success of U.S. aerial spraying in Bolivia and Peru" [WORLD, Aug. 9]. It is important to clarify that coca eradication in Bolivia is done by manual means and not through the spraying of chemical defoliants. The use of herbicides or any other chemical agent is strictly prohibited under Bolivian law in order to preserve the ecological balance. No spraying of any sort is done in Bolivia in connection with coca eradication. MARCELO PEREZ-MONASTERIOS Ambassador, Embassy of Bolivia Washington...
...every four years in January, but the upperclass people there are really backbiting and gossipy, and lots of folks transfer out. Once in a while, of course, a senior will decide to move "off-campus," abandoning the Houses altogether to trek through the Gobi Desert or teach English to Bolivian squirrels. Off-campus life can be isolating, but many find it rewarding. And unlike in the Houses, you have to cook all your own food...
These, then, are the simple and powerful reasons for a career in business. Many proponents of so-called "responsible careers" on this campus would have me justify my career choice to a homeless Bolivian man. Since I just got behind the wheels of the bulldozer that will likely build that man a bigger, better, more efficiently constructed home financed at lower cost, I can justify my career very easily. Can those with the toothpicks do the same? Kaustuv Sen '99 is an economics concentrator in Eliot House. He is also The Crimson's reader representative...
There is a test that determines whether we are spending our working lives doing the (individually defined) right thing. Explain what you have chosen to do with your working life to a victim of the world's problems--a malnourished Angolan girl, a homeless Bolivian man, a Tibetan political prisoner. Your career choice is valid only if you can justify it to that person in good conscience...