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Gong, who is from Beijing, said that international students can have trouble adjusting culturally and may carry the burden of being the sole representative of their country at Harvard. She added that students from some cultures might also be less willing to accept counseling...
...department fighting for their methodology’s supremacy. Although some students executed joint theses elegantly, many caused administrative headaches. With the advent of the secondary field program last spring, students have been given more choice in their ability to engage in interdisciplinary study at Harvard without the significant burden of writing a joint thesis. Of course, the experience of writing an interdisciplinary thesis is still an important one, and one that can still occur under the new system. For instance, if students wanted to write a thesis in economics and psychology, they could still incorporate elements from both under...
...Missile Defense Agency, said over breakfast earlier this year. "It is the Iranian missiles that we're worried about." But if the best those missiles could carry is conventional explosives, the case for deploying the missile defense system in the face of the heavy diplomatic cost and financial burden ($4 billion through 2013) becomes increasingly dubious. For one thing, the Pentagon faces mounting bills of tens of billions of dollars to "reset" the U.S. military - replacing everything worn out in Afghanistan and Iraq - over the coming decade...
...criminal matter. “The words criminal and alien have gotten into the debate in a very inappropriate way,” she said. The problem of illegal immigrants has been a powerful political issue in recent years because of conflicts over services, especially the increased burden on local schools and hospitals, Preston said. While this new population is helping to meet the demand for labor, “how those people are incorporated into American society will have a enormous impact on the tenure of American society,” Preston said in an interview after the event...
...Petersen-Sundquist administration has irresponsibly shunned that burden and, even worse, humiliated in the process the student body they ostensibly represent...