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...looking for a case study in how a government can fail the health needs of its people, Burma is a good place to start. The seeds of the country's problems were sown long ago, and Maung, 45, knows them well. A member of Burma's Karen ethnic minority, which has fought a simmering half-century war for independence, she grew up in a region that had never been quite at peace. She kept her head down long enough to make it to the capital, Yangon (then known as Rangoon), where she attended medical school in the mid-1980s, then...
...works at the Times.Luo, who wrote for The Crimson before founding Diversity & Distinction, said that he started the magazine because he wanted a publication that people of all backgrounds would be interested in reading.“At Harvard there are a lot of really specific magazines for specific ethnic groups, but they are only read by people in that community,” Luo said. “There needed to be something that brought together all these groups.”Lee said that Diversity & Distinction was intended as a “cross-identity” publication...
While there is ethnic diversity on the playing field of many sports, women and minorities have fewer opportunities to join athletic departments at the professional-entry level than they did last year, according to a report published by the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida...
...athletics department does take proactive steps to recruit and hire diversely across gender and ethnic lines,” he said, noting that Harvard advertises open positions on outlets including the Black Coaches Association...
...Upon registering for classes, at least 22 multiracial students found that Harvard had listed them as single-raced. They all clearly remember checking all that apply on their applications, as the common application requested. However, the registration site identified them as belonging to just one racial or ethnic group. “I can’t say that I’m surprised,” says Michael Oshima ’08, a Russian-Japanese student at the College upon finding that the registration site identified him as Asian American. “I guess they chose whatever...