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American executives seeking insight into Japanese business culture should pick up a comic book. The thick volumes of cartoons called manga are highly popular among the office-worker class known as salarymen. While manga have long dealt with crime and romance, one of the best-selling topics now is business...
...Bunting Fellows Poetry Reading took place on April 2, in the Cronkhite Living room on Ash Street, and featured the two poets Natasha Trethewey and Brenda Shaughnessy. Each poet has recently published her first book, Domestic Work and Interior With Sudden Joy, respectively. Trethewey read first. Her poems dealt, from many points of view, with a woman in a photograph projected on a screen for the audience. The woman was a prostitute, photographed in Storyville in 1912. Trethewey’s poems reconstructed a life around this woman, superimposing emotions and experience onto the subject images. Her reading style...
...enraged by the still-unexplained arrests of two Jarai tribesmen near the Cambodian border. They threw stones, broke windows and in one village reportedly tied up and beat a local official. Witnesses say some shouted for the Kinh to leave. In a country where open opposition is rare and dealt with harshly, the riots amounted to Vietnam's worst unrest since 1997 when thousands of villagers in northeastern Thai Binh province protested against land distribution by corrupt officials...
...moved to the U.S. with the first wave of Chinese students in 1982, shortly after Beijing launched economic reforms. His Ph.D. dissertation at Princeton dealt with China's one-child policy. Li has a liberal pedigree: his father used his senior position in the Ministry of Propaganda to push reforms in the early 1980s, and Li himself delved into politics during the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement by writing articles from the U.S. on democracy and human rights. But that never stopped him from returning to China frequently, and in the past decade his research has focused on China...
Before the program went into effect, Dolan dealt with 55 fights a year; now she averages six. Also, the school's standardized math and reading scores have risen from the 40th to the 60th percentile--in part, she thinks, because students are better able to focus on their studies...