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...Cultural Revolution,” which details personal childhood horrors he and his generation experienced during Mao Tse-Tung’s Cultural Revolution during the 1960s and 1970s. In an event jointly sponsored by Harvard’s Fairbank Center for East Asian Research and the New England China Seminar, Xing juxtaposed the brutality he witnessed with the history perpetuated by the Chinese government, which Xing said has been sanitized. Xing said that the Chinese government has intentionally tried to distort information about the Cultural Revolution and that through his film, he hopes to provide the next generation with...

Author: By Laura G. Mirviss, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Film Revisits Chinese Revolution | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

...approve of transparency, but tend not to assign to much significance to one-dimensional rankings,” U.K. schools saw a widespread drop in rankings this year, with top universities Cambridge and Oxford falling behind Yale to third and fourth place. Higher education observers in England worry that their universities will continue to fall behind American peers due to their comparative poverty. Oxford’s endownment stands at a fifth the size of Harvard’s coffers. In May, the university announced a massive fundraising campaign to add $2.18 billion to its accounts. According to the Times...

Author: By Paul C. Mathis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Tops ‘Times’ Rankings Again | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

...currently still lives in Cabot House while he is finishing the last year of his masters degree at the New England Conservatory, will be the only South Korean performing at the event...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Koh To Play in North Korea | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

...EPA’s STAR fellowships support masters and doctoral candidates by providing $3,700 a year to help the students complete their degrees. This year, 32 fellows were selected out of almost 900 applicants, and Leibensperger was one of only four selected from New England...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SEAS Grad Student Receives EPA Award | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

Campbell is the first student to pursue a joint degree at Harvard and the New England Conservatory in jazz performance, where his teachers include Grammy-winning pianist Danilo Perez. After five years of study, Campbell, who lives in Quincy House and bikes to NEC three days a week, will have a master’s degree from NEC and a Harvard undergraduate degree in physics...

Author: By Samantha L. Connolly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Pursuit of Jazziness | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

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