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...Cheng-San Chen, the owner of Louie’s Superette, has no intention to change his hours, even if the blue law is repealed...
Today, Christopher Murray, an adjunct professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, and Lincoln Chen, director of the Global Equity Initiative and a lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government, will speak on the “Challenges of Promoting International Health...
...analyze rock formations and identify thrust faults while getting to do some hands-on work with their EPS professors. “When you’re hiking up a mountain and think you’re not going to make it, you bond,” says Yi-chen Huang ’06, an EPS concentrator. In addition to extolling the trip’s educational merits, Huang mentions that Harvard bought the group plenty of good pizza and even beer—the drinking age in the province of Alberta...
...with the mainland. In 1996, when Taiwan's first direct presidential elections aroused concern on the mainland that democracy would draw the island further away from unification, Beijing reacted angrily by lobbing missiles over the Taiwan Strait. Four years later, the pro-independence background of Taiwan's current President Chen Shui-bian elicited a televised harangue by former Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji on the eve of the presidential polls. But during this year's presidential walk-up, China has been strangely quiet, even though some of Chen's policies, such as a push for a new constitution, arouse suspicions that...
...velvet touch? Political analysts say China may have finally learned that its threatening behavior is counterproductive. In the 2000 Taiwanese elections, the vitriol from Beijing actually gave Chen a 5% boost in the polls, according to a survey consultant. "The Chinese government's confidence in dealing with diplomatic issues has increased and they don't haggle over every little issue," says Guo Dingping, a political science professor at Shanghai's Fudan University. "They're now focusing more on long-term interests instead of insignificant altercations across the strait." Still, politicians in Taiwan caution that subtlety doesn't mean China...