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Until recently, the billboard alongside Highway 1 in Bac Ninh province offered only empty promises. "Applying Unity and Creativity Will Speed Up Industrialization," it stated, portraying happy factory workers staring rapturously at a hammer and sickle. But Bac Ninh, like most of northern Vietnam, had been largely left out of the country's economic growth in the past decade. When Pham Thi Nhan, 19, graduated from high school last year, she saw few work prospects other than helping her family grow rice, an occupation that earns them about $400 a year. Nhan thought of moving south like her uncle...
...event. Another Harvard victory was registered by senior Kevin Duffy in the javelin throw. His toss of 57.10 meters was just under two meters better than any of the other 18 competitors. Senior James Rhodes and junior James Ayers had tosses good enough for sixth and seventh in the hammer toss events, leaving divots 50.04 and 47.90 meters from the circle. Sophomore pole vaulter Dan Ford took sixth in his events. —THE CRIMSON STAFF
...improving the social life for undergraduates. However, it still remains unclear how the board will be solvent beyond short term grants from the College. The long term situation as it stands is ambiguous and unsettling. We hope that in the coming weeks, the College and the UC can hammer out a long term plan for financing the social programming board—whether that will include continued reliance on gifts, a stake in the current termbill fee, or the building of a social programming endowment needs to be made clear. In the interim, the UC will have roughly...
...Russia, which wants to avoid Security Council involvement altogether. "It's a fundamental problem," says a senior U.S. official. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice telephoned Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov but made little headway. She plans to visit Berlin, Paris and Britain this week in an effort to hammer out a statement that can win unanimous backing in the Security Council. Meanwhile, Tehran has sped up research work on the uranium enrichment that lies at the heart of the dispute. Diplomats who have been briefed on Iran's program by international inspectors say the country has developed the ability...
...social and cultural scene at Harvard. “Our goal, in the broadest sense, was to publish a magazine that would interest Harvard’s campus,” Kaden wrote. “We certainly believe we accomplished that.” But Rebecca J. Hammer ’06, creator of the “Scene Magazine is Bullshit” facebook.com group, wrote in an e-mail that she took issue with the magazine’s lack of minority representation. “Pretty much everyone I know agrees that Scene Magazine is completely...