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...daughter, Abby. (Zhang, in typical Shanghainese fashion, sold his house three months ago for a 20% profit and moved to another place not far from here.) Another couple are both engineers who work for Intel, helping design the chipmaker's new factory in Dalian. Another young father, Chen Jun, 36, is a successful clothing wholesaler. These are not rich Chinese, but people who consider themselves solidly middle class. Chen says proudly that he's "the first in my family to own a car as well as a real house." Their homes are about the same size as ours, and they...
...others, as for us, it was the cleaner environment, a little bit of green and a lot more space. "I love it out here," says Chen. "It's quiet, and the air is better." Two couples we've become friendly with say they want to have a second child - now permissible in Shanghai since the government loosened the one-child policy a bit in 2004. All this at a price much cheaper than it would be to buy a decent apartment in Shanghai (let alone a house in the San Fernando Valley...
...admissions policies regarding Asian Americans. In 1990, the federal government investigated Harvard for discriminating against Asian applicants. The investigation found that lower admission rates for Asians—despite somewhat stronger academic credentials—could be attributed to legacy and athlete preferences, which primarily benefited white applicants. Yi Chen ’09, co-president of the Asian American Association, said that she didn’t think too much about her ethnicity when applying to college. “Harvard is hard to get into, period,” Chen said. “You just appreciate racial...
...sessions because it’s “so boring and dry and miserable, that you have to do something to make it interesting.” Lamont’s studious atmosphere means that prospective neckers can even hide in plain sight. Campus sex blogger Lena Chen ’09 says that she once smooched with a gay friend on the third floor of Lamont without anyone noticing. But campus kissing is hardly confined to the libraries. Mellor says that “little study rooms, tunnels, and all sorts of classrooms” make for some...
...debut. Leo J. Keliher ‘10, co-president of the premarital sexual abstinence group True Love Revolution said he believes that anything that allows men to look at and fantasize about women “just objectifies women.” But campus sex blogger Lena Chen ‘09 gave her nod of approval to Diamond. “I think that any increase in dialogue about sex on campus is certainly positive because Harvard is kind of Puritanical,” she said. Chen welcomed Di Pasquale to Harvard’s sex publication scene...