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...early December, Faust sent a letter to the Harvard community stating that the University would halt construction of the Allston Science Complex, which for years has been touted as a hub for interdisciplinary research and a cornerstone of Harvard’s future campus across the river. The decision, Faust wrote, resulted from the “altered financial landscape of the University, and the wider world...
...financial hub, Hong Kong draws in tens of thousands of well-heeled Western expats as well as a modicum of Asian professionals who indulge in the fine dining and luxury malls ubiquitous in Asia's self-professed "world city." But affluent people run up against prejudice too, if they are dark-skinned. Stories of everyday discrimination are legion and often banal in their predictability: from being denied service in a bar or being unable to lease an apartment of one's choice and means. Hong Kong police practice racial profiling, routinely checking IDs of South Asians and sometimes frisking them...