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...Perhaps it's the memory of slavery, or the legacy of the civil rights movement, or the need to be politically correct, or just plain politeness, but most Americans, particularly whites, are relatively restrained in word and deed about race. Most Asians are uninhibited about it. Asia's vast ethnic diversity means we are forced to confront the very many real differences - cultural, political, economic - that exist among us. Sometimes those differences erupt in violence. At least half of the world's armed conflicts are in Asia, nearly all ethnic-based. But the bigger reason Asians do not focus...
...Audience member Maria P. Mogollon ’03, who is in her second year at Harvard Business School and is the president of the Colombia Caucus at the Harvard Kennedy School, a group which co-sponsored the event, said that Zuluaga’s speech would help correct the country’s negative image. “Colombia is a country that is still being perceived, in spite of its dramatic growth and both economy and politics during the past decade, as the images of 1980s: crimes, drugs and poverty.” Mogollon said...
...that picture is only partly correct. That China is watching the meltdown with alarm is certainly true. The global economic slowdown on the tail of the financial-market blowout is already clear and present on the mainland. In what has been one of the world's prime economic engines for the past five years, growth is slowing fast. Look only at the price of steel - as useful an industrial proxy for China's economic boom as any. According to Mysteel, a Shanghai-based consulting firm, the price for products used primarily in construction have fallen to less than...
...during two seasons in which the flu strain included in the vaccine was not well matched to the predominant circulating strain that was making people sick. That could explain the lack of protection among the vaccinees - the shot may have been protecting against the wrong flu proteins. Targeting the correct strain is a always a bit of a guessing game, however; researchers make their best scientifically based prediction as to which flu virus will be making the rounds in a coming season, but they often have to make these predictions up to nine months ahead of time, in order...
...because the arrest was unlawful. The district court and appeals court denied his request to suppress the evidence. What's at Stake: The pertinent issue in Herring's case is whether evidence should be the excluded if it is obtained during an arrest precipitated by what seems to be correct information given by another law enforcement agency, but in fact is erroneous. In hearing this case, the Supreme Court will revisit the Fourth Amendment right to reasonable searches and seizures...