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University President Drew G. Faust spent eight days of her spring break meeting with top government and education leaders in Japan and China, underscoring the University’s efforts to bolster its international presence...
...tangible benefits to Harvard students. As stated above, complete electoral reform is, in this case, virtually impossible. The UC should instead focus its energies on what it was intended to accomplish—namely, the improvement of student life—rather than waste resources and energy working to bolster its electoral...
Heba el Habashy ’10—who recently launched TheCultivate.com, a Web-based service which aims to connect new designers with trend-conscious wholesalers and buyers to bolster local markets—expressed her support for protecting fledgling designers...
...Although the aura of Zheng's expeditions may somehow bolster China's budding soft power, it's unclear what lasting impact the visiting fleets had on medieval Africa. No durable trade ties were left in place. And while stories linger in Kenya's Lamu archipelago of a light-skinned community descended from shipwrecked Chinese sailors, the population there retains no trace of Chinese customs or language. "Not much endured beyond the legend," says Sautman. Indeed, scholars like Wade suggest the voyages themselves were something of an "aberration" in the wider context of Chinese foreign policy in that era, which...
...that make it easy to edit documents, spreadsheets and presentations online. Now Schmidt and Co. have added the best available photo-editing tool. Strategically speaking, you might think of it as a carefully orchestrated effort to gradually sideline Microsoft's lumbering desktop software suite. To that end, Picnik will bolster Google's launch of its new Web-oriented Chrome operating system later this year. "The consumer market is evolving into a model where every useful or interesting application starts with a login to the cloud," says Nat Burgess, president of the Corum Group, an M&A advisory firm...