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...SEEKING ASYLUM. CHEN YONGLIN, 37, political-affairs consul at the Chinese consulate in Sydney; in Australia. Chen told Australian immigration authorities last week that he was part of a 1,000-strong Chinese spy network in the country responsible for keeping tabs on Chinese dissidents and members of the Falun Gong religious group, and that he would "rather die" than return home. His request has not yet been granted and he remains in hiding in Australia with his family. Australian Health Minister Tony Abbott said Chen "is at no risk of being sent back to China." A Chinese Foreign Ministry...
...same meal. What we have shared instead is the discovery that you can be anything that you can imagine. That is--you can be anything, but you cannot be everything. Perhaps you can play for HRO and the Water Polo team, be marshal of Phi Beta Kappa and consul of Sigma Chi, as well as love the Garden State. But even the most conscientious overachiever is hard-pressed to do it all at the same exacting level of type-A perfectionism for which we Harvard students are notorious...
...intention whatsoever of using the territorial and textbook issues politically. Rather, I would like to make it clear that South Koreans hope to see Japan become a responsible member of the international community based on a genuine recognition of universal values and historic truth. Kim Cheol Hyeon Consul of the Republic of Korea Hong Kong
...British community at Harvard tends to integrate very well into the greater Harvard community,” said Her Majesty’s Consul-General in Boston John Rankin. “Nevertheless, we have certain values and interests and it’s great to have this election night to bring those together...
...only one of numerous examples of the university’s indifference to anti-Semitic violence in Germany on which I focused at the Wyman Institute’s conference. The press at the time linked the Hanfstaengl episode with the administration’s permitting the Nazi consul to place a wreath bearing a swastika in the University chapel, calling this Harvard’s recognition of the Hitler regime. Moreover, although British universities boycotted the “Nazified” University of Heidelberg’s anniversary celebration in 1936, Harvard chose to participate in this Hitler...