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...years, hungry Harvard students have bemoaned the paltry and ill-suited dining hall dinner hours. Even though changes to the antiquated schedule—a schedule that fails to accommodate the increasingly late-night Harvard student—have seemed as unlikely as cable in dorm rooms or an exciting social scene, Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) recently unveiled several feasible alternatives to lengthen dinner serving hours. We applaud HUDS’ efforts and encourage the College to consider implementing a more reasonable dining hall schedule next year. The three proposals range in estimated costs from...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Scrumptious Proposal | 1/10/2006 | See Source »

According to Amnesty International’s 2005 report on Zimbabwe, the country’s police and intelligence forces "were implicated in numerous cases of torture, assault, and ill-treatment." The report said that "victims were primarily members of the political opposition and those perceived as critical of the government...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel and Ndidi N. Menkiti, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Senior Released After 5 Days in Zimbabwean Jail | 1/10/2006 | See Source »

...reason it is so hard to reach an equilibrium is that they are seen as what sociologists call "forever foreigners." Their looks lead to a lifetime of questions like "No, where are you really from?" As a teenager in the affluent and overwhelmingly white Chicago suburb of Riverwoods, Ill, Vanessa DeGuia, now 26, endured incident after incident that made her aware that others regarded her as foreign, despite how her birth certificate read. One classmate told her, "You're my brown friend. You're so exotic." Another came over for dinner, took a bite of a Filipino egg roll made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Between Two Worlds | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

...previous generations of immigrants' kids, including those Italians and Jews, lived in neighborhoods with built-in social support structures?people who looked like them, ate like them, prayed like them. They had what Marissa Dagdagan, 28, a daughter of Filipino-born doctors, who grew up in Burr Ridge, Ill, says she did not?"people like me that I could corroborate with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Between Two Worlds | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

...Beauty Leopard, which sells for $15,125 in China. Other Chinese manufacturers, with varying levels of sophistication, are developing export models too, notably Chery, which is being promoted by Malcolm Bricklin, a New York City entrepreneur who made his fortune importing Subarus and his name importing the ill-fated Yugo. "What you're seeing is the first stage," says Mike Hanley, global director of Ernst & Young's automotive practice. "Everybody recognizes that Chinese cars will end up in North America. It's a matter of time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Fast-Moving Vehicles | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

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