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These companies have a distinct advantage over foreign competitors because their founders and senior managers are part of the same elite class as the regulators who enforce the various and mostly unwritten rules of censorship. They have offices in Beijing, and they lobby the Chinese government through uncharted back channels and are in what amounts to a continuous dialogue about what is and what is not acceptable. This includes not only political censorship but morals - especially relating to porn and sex. Google may have hired its own cadre of Chinese executives but it - like Yahoo and eBay before - has always...
...recent review has determined that an adequate amount of residential space is available for a small incoming class of transfers, according to an online statement posted this afternoon by Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Michael D. Smith and Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds...
Between 1,000 and 1,300 students per year have applied for a spot among the transfer class in the past, according to Rotner. Nevertheless, the admissions office has “no way of knowing” how the two-year suspension of the program will affect the number of applications the College will receive, she added...
...past, Harvard has accepted as many as 75 transfer students in a year. The Crimson reported in 2008 that such notable alumni as John F. Kennedy ’40, Henry A. Kissinger ’50, and W.E.B. DuBois, Class of 1890, came to Harvard as transfer students...
...Vietnamese prickliness at what many see as Chinese encroachment has led to Hanoi beefing up its own naval capabilities. Last month, it penned a landmark $2 billion deal with Moscow to acquire six Kilo-class Russian submarines. The government is also formulating plans to improve its coastal-defense operations and to better protect Vietnamese fishing fleets. Still, considering China's size and wealth, there's little talk of an arms race in the region. "Vietnam is subject to the tyranny of geography. It's like a mid-sized Chinese province," says Carl Thayer, an authority on the Vietnamese military...