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...Geoffrey Stokes, press columnist for New York City's Village Voice, "We are all professional snoops." Stokes' columns frequently contain items leaked to him from the computers of the large New York dailies. Last year he gleefully printed a memo purloined from the New York Times revealing that Arthur Gelb, one of that paper's top editors, asked a Paris reporter to investigate the effects of the Chernobyl nuclear accident on Russian caviar...
...thesis, Gelb says, "is something original that should wrap up your Harvard career." He adds that he does not think he could have written a thesis unless he had visited the country he wanted to study. "If I had to write a library thesis, I would not do it," Gelb says...
...Amos P. Gelb '86-'87, who spent last summer researching the Chinese press, calls the CFIA program "one of the greatest things Harvard does." He compares the grant program to the core program, saying, "It's the best foreign cultures, social analysis, moral reasoning and historical studies education I think I'll ever...
...Gelb, who is fluent in Chinese, spent his summer interviewing foreign and domestic journalists, talking to government officials and academics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The Adams House resident knew that he would do his thesis on China after he spent a year in China working as a market analyst for IBM and Altman...
Although the British-born Gelb says he plans to return to China after graduation and be a journalist, he adds he will probably eventually return to his native London. "China can burn you out; it can China-you-out," he says...