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...time when Chinese-made products are seizing global markets, the 12 Girls Band has become the mainland's first pop-musical export. The Sino-Japanese balance of cultural trade used to be decidedly in Japan's favor. Although Chinese youth followed Japanese TV dramas and pop idols, the straitlaced mainland entertainment industry offered little in exchange. But today, the 12 Girls Band (which actually numbers 13, including one alternate) is ubiquitous in Japan. They star in commercials for chocolate and cell phones, comedians parody them on TV, and in what may be the most compelling proof of their fame, there...
...various op-eds, books and television appearances, Ferguson has addressed issues ranging from British to American empires and European international institutions to the U.S. international debt. His controversial arguments in favor of empire, and comparisons between modern American hegemony and the British empire of a century ago, have garnered both publicity and criticism from academia and a popular audience...
...politicize their demands for rooms of their own, on a campus where student space is at a premium. RUS put up a red protest tent on the Science Center lawn in April—eschewing the College’s proper, customary procedures to apply for student space in favor of a public, activist campaign. Such tactics beg College administrators to prioritize women’s space over other groups’ requests, and thus the Women’s Center threatens to be—in the words of dissenting Council representative Joseph K. Oliveri ’05?...
McLoughlin, who sees the cause for gay marriage as “a civil rights struggle,” said that though a constitutional amendment may overturn the Supreme Judicial Court’s decision in favor of legalizing marriage for same-sex couples, he is not too concerned...
Tomorrow morning marks the beginning of the end of the 2003-2004 school year, and also, notably, one of the last exam periods before the Harvard curriculum is revamped—and the Core, as we know it, is abolished. Yet the dismantling of the Core in favor of vague notions of Harvard College Courses combined with a flexible distribution requirement leaves much to the imagination. Although the Harvard College Courses will comprise the “flagship” of the new curriculum, in the 69-page report issued by the Harvard College Curricular Review (HCCR), the section devoted...