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...creating a forum for discussion on such a neglected topic, Road to Success will provide the Harvard community with the chance to learn firsthand how four successful women of color have effectively navigated their identities in the workplace...
...carried that integrity around the world. "He's loved in countries that don't even like Americans," says singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson, who was a janitor at a Nashville recording studio in 1965 when he first met Cash. "I've seen that firsthand in the places we've played. People love him because of everything he represents: freedom, justice for his fellow man. He is unlike any other artist I've ever known. He's as comfortable with the poor and prisoners as he is with Presidents. He's crossed over all age boundaries, all political boundaries. I like...
...news. And after Deng Xiaoping declared martial law several weeks later, Yang voluntarily returned to China to support the demonstrators. "He knew that something major was happening, and he couldn't bear the thought of not being a part of it," says Fu. The killings he witnessed firsthand became a part of him. Yang returned to the U.S. a political activist. He wrote prolifically about the massacre. He decided to pursue a second Ph.D. in political economy at Harvard. He testified before Congress and spoke at numerous international human-rights conferences. Still, he talked constantly of returning to China...
...entering the country on a false passport, and was denied access to a lawyer and family members for nearly a year. Blacklisted as a result of his activism during the 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising, Yang settled in the U.S. His wife says he returned to China to see firsthand how the country has changed. But last month, the Chinese government accused him of spying for Taiwan. Yang's detention has been criticized by various international agencies, and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Lorne Craner says Yang's is "one of the particular cases...
When Terry Neese cuts her charity checks each year, she's thinking about more than a tax deduction. One beneficiary, the March of Dimes, has deep personal significance for her. Neese, 54, learned of birth defects firsthand when her grandchild Emily, 8, was born with one arm shorter than the other. "In addition to giving to nonprofits that have important meaning to me," says Neese, who sits on the local board of March of Dimes in Oklahoma City, Okla., "I've done my homework to make sure these groups were getting the job done...