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...meeting yesterday morning, and the paper’s sponsor, Currier House representative Eric I. Kouskalis ’07, said he was “very pleased” with the committee’s positive reception of the UC proposal. “I’m glad that we unanimously agreed on the principle” of co-ed rooming, Kouskalis said. But logistical hurdles remain. Leverett House Master Howard Georgi ’67 said crowding in the houses would make implementing the proposals difficult. “I think it would be a mistake...
Jimmy Zhao ’08 says his parents used to joke that if he ever brought a white girl home, at least they could be glad she wasn’t African American.If Zhao, who is Chinese American, did bring an African-American girlfriend back to his New Jersey home, it wouldn’t only surprise his parents. It would be a statistical anomaly.According to U.S. Census Bureau data analyzed by a sociologist at University of Massachusetts-Amherst, C.N. Le, just 0.1 percent of Chinese-American men have African-American wives, compared to 5.1 percent who are married...
...quickly grew tired of it all. I quit after only 11 months. During my exit interview, the HR manager commented, "And to think of all the money we spent on recruiting..." (Recruiting lawyers, especially from top-tier law schools, is unbelievably expensive!) I absolutely love my new job! Glad to be gone...
...Serb military, played a mournful march, as a handful of the faithful tried to recapture his former glory in speeches blending his trademark nationalist rhetoric with rants against Serbia's manifold alleged enemies. Though an estimated 80,000 attended a memorial rally in Belgrade, most Serbs, it seemed, were glad that their erstwhile hero was gone. Milosevic may be dead and buried, but plenty who shared responsibility with him for some of the worst horrors of modern Europe are still alive and free. The former Serb leader was not in his grave before the International Criminal Tribunal in the Hague...
...simply because they were made in the past. The problem, as illustrated by the St. Louis example, is that our predecessors sometimes got it wrong, occasionally horribly so. Past decisions were often made based on assumptions that we now recognize as idiotic in conditions that we are generally glad to have left behind. That doesn’t mean we should build a new society on the ashes of the old. Not every innovation is better than what came before. But we as students could do a better job of freeing ourselves from the baggage of convention. If a change?...