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...protests involving a few dozen to nearly a thousand demonstrators. "The demonstrations are indicative of the widespread dissent in Xinjiang's Uighur community and how quickly that dissent can become explosive with only a little agitation," Elizabeth Van Wie Davis, co-editor of the 2007 book Islam, Oil & Geopolitics: Central Asia Since September 11, wrote in a recent academic paper...
...been heavily curtailed, and the issuance of international passports, which Uighurs now say has been halted until after the Olympic Games in August. (An official surnamed Wu at the Foreign Affairs Department in Khotan said he wasn't aware of such a policy.) Some Uighurs, who are a central Asian people ethnically much closer to Turks than Chinese, expressed fears that their culture and way of life could be threatened by a steady influx of Han Chinese. The wave of immigration has seen the Han share of the province's population - estimated at about 6% in 1949 - rise...
...Mora worked on a wide variety of projects, including financial modeling for Allston and renegotiation of reimbursement rates for Harvard research, according to the University’s statement. Mora’s resignation means that Faust will now have up to three positions to fill in the central administration. In addition to naming a new vice president for finance and the first-ever executive vice president, Faust will also have to name a replacement for Alan J. Stone, Harvard’s vice president for government, community, and public affairs, when he steps down in July. When asked about...
...These factors make it hard to measure short-term outputs and long-term outcomes, which makes it all the more intriguing and important,” he said. From the data he gathered, Ebrahim hypothesized that organizational learning is more likely to occur if staff perceive evaluation as central to their own jobs and if error is embraced as a learning opportunity. He explored these theories via surveys of 62 D.C. nonprofit directors. The room’s experts raised some concerns with Ebrahim’s data. Most agreed that in terms of learning from mistakes, Ebrahim needed...
...usual emotions teenagers feel when they're about to embark on an adventure-without their parents-that some 40 students from Elim Christian College in Auckland, New Zealand assembled on Sunday morning. Their school-holiday excursion entailed a five-hour bus ride to an outdoor center in the Central North Island, where they were to spend five days bonding with one another, developing their leadership skills and having...