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...yourself? When I went to the U.S. in March, the Americans thought I may be too close to the mainland. But I am one of the few politicians in Taiwan who attends the Tiananmen memorial service every year. I am the only politician to go to a Falun Gong gathering. I was the first politician in Taiwan to criticize China's antisecession law, not because I support Taiwan independence, but because [the law] is unnecessary and unwise. I am Taiwanese as well as Chinese...
...rival Houses. The video begins with Russian monks burning down Lowell’s belltower—presumably in retaliation for the House’s refusal to return its bells to the St. Danilov Monastery from which they came. The monks steal Adams House’s prized gong, initiating an apocalyptic conflict. The video also mocks Kirkland House’s alleged Francophile tendencies—its House master, Tom Conley, is also Harvard’s director of graduate studies in French. And Wilson pokes fun at Mather’s industrial architecture by portraying House residents...
True to form, last week’s general meeting was a complete gong show, as the UC once again contemplated changes to its stringent non-discrimination policy on funding student groups. A brief synopsis: A last-minute piece of new business catapulted the UC into chaos, student group leaders were summoned to testify, a former UC vice president was dragged out of retirement to cast a vote of dubious legitimacy, a motion was made for the ejection of the chair of the Student Affairs Committee from the meeting, and the meeting ended without anything having been accomplished...
...public displays of religiosity outside the confines of state-controlled institutions are not. China's history is filled with religious uprisings against the state, like the millenarian cults that helped usher out China's last imperial dynasty, the Qing. Hence the continuing crackdown against the meditation movement Falun Gong or the raid last month on an unofficial Bible study in central Henan province that was termed "evil cult" activity by the police. In northwestern Xinjiang, where the Chinese government is fighting a separatist movement by the Uighur ethnic group, Muslim activity outside of state mosques is suppressed and offenders sometimes...
...Falun Gong activists aren't the only ones concerned about China's organ trade. A day before Hu's interrupted White House speech, the British Transplantation Society, a group of 800 surgeons, issued a statement criticizing the use of death-row prisoners' organs in transplants-because it cannot verify China's claim that it only procures organs from prisoners who have given consent. "I don't believe anybody in a prison would be sitting around having voluntary consent discussions," says bioethicist Arthur Caplan of the University of Pennsylvania...