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...These unfortunate incidents, and others like them, are symptomatic of a larger problem one would think wouldn't exist at Harvard in 2005. The sort of stereotypical thinking that leads to such irrational responses to contact with black people is the same motivation behind the creation of organizational nicknames, like Angry Black Harvard Women (in place of Association for Black Harvard Women, or ABHW), and—to a lesser extent—alleged self-segregating tendencies. Granted, people come from a variety of backgrounds and may have limited experience with those unlike them, and therefore may thus far have...
...lovers will be delighted with the hotel's five-room facility, Spa Indochine, and its sensuous array of Eastern therapies. For those who crave more meaningful contact with local culture, La Paix arranges a selection of charitable activities, from teaching English to war orphans to participating in Angkor's preservation efforts, thereby turning guests into do-gooders without any sacrifice of five-star comforts...
...Cultures,” comment, Sept. 27) but limits its use to undergraduates. This would be a mistake, given that the most culturally diverse populations at Harvard are our postdoctoral fellow community, followed by the graduate student community. It would be of benefit for undergraduates to have direct contact with fellows and students from foreign countries in a center that would be enjoyed...
Back in 1990, Robert Oxnam was on top of the world. He had parlayed an academic career as a China scholar into the presidency of the prestigious Asia Society, the leading sponsor of cultural, educational and artistic contact between the U.S. and Asia. And because the late '80s were a time of increasing political unrest in China--culminating in the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre--Oxnam, now 62, was frequently tapped by political leaders to help them figure out how to deal with the Chinese. He even accompanied former President George H.W. Bush as an on-the-ground adviser...
...just before or after graduating high school, according to The New Gay Teenager, a book Harvard University Press published this summer. The book quotes a Penn State study of 350 young people from 59 gay groups that found that the mean age at which lesbians first have sexual contact with other girls is 16; it's just 14 for gay boys. In 1997 there were approximately 100 gay-straight alliances (GSAs)--clubs for gay and gay-friendly kids--on U.S. high school campuses. Today there are at least 3,000 GSAs--nearly 1 in 10 high schools has one--according...