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...time, Kim says, she had no thoughts of going beyond China. While she was in the labor camp, her mother had begun attending a church for ethnic Koreans. "I started to pray for her all the time there," her mother says. In February 2004, after Chinese police raided the church, Kim's mother and sister fled to Seoul, but Kim didn't follow. "I was frightened by what had happened to me the first time," she says. "I didn't want to try to get out and risk getting caught." For the next year, Kim lived a quiet life with...
...Qing. Hence the continuing crackdown against the meditation movement Falun Gong or the raid last month on an unofficial Bible study in central Henan province that was termed "evil cult" activity by the police. In northwestern Xinjiang, where the Chinese government is fighting a separatist movement by the Uighur ethnic group, Muslim activity outside of state mosques is suppressed and offenders sometimes jailed. Nor do Tibetans have free rein to worship the Dalai Lama, who was not invited to the World Buddhist Forum in Hangzhou two weeks ago. The main speaker was the Beijing-appointed Panchen Lama...
...Paul Huberdeau and Orchestra Director Aaron Berkowitz, ably navigate the cast through Bernstein’s difficult score. Written by Arthur Laurent, “West Side Story” updates Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.” The division between two rival ethnic gangs, the Puerto Rican-based Sharks and the white Jets become muddled when Tony (Samuel C. Brondfield ’08), the former leader of the Jets, falls in love with Maria (Rachel C. Porter ’07), the sister of the leader of the Sharks.Brondfield is an undeniably...
...country club,” he said. “They do not realize that 70 percent of our students are on financial aid. They do not realize that the majority of our students come from public schools. They are often surprised at the extent of racial and ethnic diversity on campus.” IN SEARCH OF STUDENTSThree years ago, Native Americans at Harvard College (NAHC) Vice-President Elijah M. Hutchinson ’06 traveled to his native Brooklyn, recruiting for UMRP for the first time. Hutchinson, who identifies with the Taino native community, hoped to talk...
Many members at the meeting stressed that they are not protesting the University, but rather responding to a national call for student boycott. Many members of ethnic student groups lauded Harvard’s accommodating stance on accepting undocumented aliens...