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I felt like crap. Literally. After what seemed like a series of unfortunate personal and circumstantial setbacks, I’d been subjugated in my sophomore spring to the lowest caste of the Harvard housing system: floater. The word itself conjures up images of things fecal. A floater�...

Author: By Charles J. Wells | Title: Freedom to Float | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

There are many reasons for this disparity in participation. Some say it is due to the lack of a unifying cause. Asians are largely a hardworking group of people, stereotypically focused on economic gain and stability, and are unlikely to stir trouble even when discrimination is taking place. There is...

Author: By Marion Liu | Title: EXPOsing China | 4/28/2010 | See Source »

Of course, what makes this fight in a San Francisco courtroom so special is that it's not just a fiery classroom debate over theology, but a fight over evidence that will be used by lawyers on appeal to convince higher courts that the prohibitions against gay marriage are illegal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gay Marriage Trial Rests, and a Key Ruling Awaits | 1/29/2010 | See Source »

"It's hardly a secret in France that in order to become an executive in a top French company, be asked to serve on a board or be tapped for a high civil-service post, you've got to have the right background, the right education, and have the powerful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France's Boardrooms: Little Diversity at the Top | 1/22/2010 | See Source »

Critics, take note: Tightly crafted prose and lofty moral sentiments may have their place, but what really matters at the end of the day is the number of times a text mentions camels. “The first thing a falsifier, a tourist, an Arab nationalist would do is have...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira | Title: The Occidental Tourist | 10/29/2009 | See Source »

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