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When a young lawyer named Zhou Dan started writing about being gay on Chinese websites in 2001, he hoped his honesty would help combat prejudice. Homosexuality was--and still is--very much in the closet in China; Beijing had just taken it off an official list of mental disorders. Zhou's entries, signed with his own name, had an unintended consequence. Gay men from around China who had faced workplace discrimination, blackmail and even prison time started to seek his legal counsel. So Zhou, 31, decided to act on his conviction that "a good lawyer should know not only...
...some countries, such as Tanzania, have found that educated and healthy people are still poor if they lack jobs. One of Wolfowitz's big challenges will be to kick-start growth in countries that seem stuck in an endless cycle of poverty. The Bank has also striven to combat corruption among governments that receive Bank assistance, insisting that countries meet tougher standards for transparency. But some outsiders say the Bank remains too lenient. Republican U.S. Senator Richard Lugar introduced a bill last month that would help poor countries fight corruption, and that encourages transparency and accountability in multinational development banks...
...died last week of uterine cancer, could apply her fierce intelligence and bold sexuality. As the predatory mother figure Mrs. Robinson, Bancroft (though she was only six years older than her co-star Dustin Hoffman) created a Francis Bacon portrait of brains gone to waste, and lust as idle combat...
...says she’s mentally prepared for the prospect of dying in combat. “Like my father says, everyone’s going to die. You can’t live your life in fear, afraid to die—you have to actually go out and live life,” she says. “I’ve taken that to heart. It’s true. That’s how terrorists win: they instill fear in people. So if you’re not afraid, they’re not winning...
Just two days ago, the Office of the Registrar of the Faculty of Arts and Science (FAS), to combat allegations of grade inflation at Harvard, unveiled a new set of standards that will be used to award honors degrees to graduating seniors, beginning with the Class...