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...powerful and enduring motivation for learning about another culture. However, it is important to recognize that such an interest, once sparked, is often sincerely driven by intellectual curiosity rather than an ulterior motive to couple. Unfounded charges of fetishism may frustrate attempts at cross-cultural edification and defeat the very goal originally aspired to by ethnic groups. Alexander T. Nguyen '99, a Crimson editor in Pforzheimer House, is former president of the Asian-American Association...
...Throughout the process [of passing the bill] there had been any number of things popping up which would have made the bill completely unacceptable," he said. One of these additions was the anti-affirmative action amendment that Rudenstine helped defeat...
...fact is, however, that the Crimson was fortunate to salvage a deadlock. With under five minutes remaining in the second half, Harvard's defeat appeared certain until Corkery's heroics evened the match...
...people die in caves is by going forward too fast, into wedges that trap them, rivers that drown them and mazes that defeat them until they give up or starve. The journey to what Bill Clinton called the "rock-bottom truth" feels now like a headlong descent, a process no one can control, toward resolutions no one can assure. There are Republicans looking for treasure down here--political power embedded for years to come. And there are Democrats looking for someone to blame. But for the rest of us, there is too little light, too little air, no compass...
...killed last month when Taliban warriors conquered Mazar-i-Sharif, a stronghold of Afghanistan's Shi'ite community. Only last week did Taliban leaders admit that eight diplomats and a journalist holed up in the Iranian consulate were massacred by the invaders. Iranian officials were equally upset by the defeat and reported slaughter of the city's Shi'ites. Tehran vowed revenge and announced last week that it was dispatching 200,000 troops for "maneuvers" on the Afghan border...