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...light of an upcoming trip to China, University President Drew G. Faust consulted a group of Harvard students who could help acquaint her with the rudiments of Chinese culture: what to expect, how to act, etc. While this was undoubtedly informative, FM came up with a couple more tips we thought she should know. 1) Don’t mention siblings—that’s just rubbing it in. 2) You can tell a lot from toasting: a person of lower status touches the rim of their glass below the rim of a higher-status counterpart. 3) Chinese...
When Amanda M. Nagy ’11 headed to the Greenhouse Café for a quick lunch one day last January, she certainly did not expect to be read passages from the Bible over her California rolls. But when approached by two well-dressed strangers, a man and a woman who looked like they could be undergraduates, that is exactly what happened. The pair told Nagy that they were conducting a survey for a class, and although she was in a rush, she consented to help them out. The dogmatic duo asked her if she was familiar with...
...Harvard girls.” The ladies seem way too busy dancing for you to spit game at them. “I know man! Who’d have thought that just dancing by myself could be this much fun?” So, next time, can I expect to see you rocking the feathered top-hat, neon hoodie, and pacifier? “Not exactly. But these greasy club kids have shown me a side of myself that I never knew existed.” Yes, Harvard students have seen the light. And it?...
...will accept the Council’s choices.“He is not bound in any way to the students we select,” Student Affairs Committee (SAC) Chair Jon T. Staff V ’10 said.In an e-mail, Smith wrote, “I expect to review suggestions from the UC and from others, and then select an appropriately diverse group of students.”UC members have been calling for applicants over House and other open lists, with an e-mail that begins, “Do you hate...
...wrong side of the law. He points out that U.S. Department of Justice statistics show that Hispanics make up 20% of state and Federal prison populations in 2005, a rise of 43% since 1990. At that rate, one in every six Hispanic males born in the U.S. today can expect to be imprisoned during his lifetime - more than double the rate for non-Hispanic whites, but lower than that of African-Americans of the same age. "That means the children and grandchildren of immigrants are committing a lot of crime, making this a long-term problem," Camarota says, before adding...