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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Originally, such issues were handled by the danwei, the work units to which Chinese employees were once closely bound, says Zhou Hanhua, a scholar at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The danwei supervised workers' lives down to marriage and childbirth, and prevented people from engaging in unregulated enterprises on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Above the Law? China's Bully Law-Enforcement Officers | 5/21/2009 | See Source »

“I can’t imagine the House functioning without us,” assistant to the Adams House resident dean Otto F. Coontz remarked after hearing about the mandated 25-percent cuts to House budgets that might put his and similar positions at risk. His concern...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Turning the Mirror | 5/20/2009 | See Source »

Most importantly, the academic mission of the College should be its priority during budget cut season. The news that section sizes will increase next year as fewer TFs are hired is disconcerting to every Harvard student who knows that much of the learning at Harvard takes place in section. This...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Turning the Mirror | 5/20/2009 | See Source »

Administrative consolidations could offset such severe cuts to House life, which are worrisome and misguided and will cause major problems for both the House staff and students. This is not to say that the specific proposals above are entirely unjustifiable—simply that the community spirit and nurturing environment...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Turning the Mirror | 5/20/2009 | See Source »

Although women play important public roles in various sectors of Iranian society and constitute the majority of university students, no woman thus far has been appointed to a significant ministry in post-revolutionary Iran. The woman who has held the highest Cabinet position is Massoumeh Ebtekar - better known to American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Woman as President: Iran's Impossible Dream? | 5/20/2009 | See Source »

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