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...even with these exclusively pre-freshmen events, John I. Kwan, from South Korea and Phillips Exeter Academy, felt the only flaw in the otherwise informative program was that he wasn't able to meet enough of his future classmates. "I made a conscious effort to try to get to know the other people here, but I was only able to meet about...
...Kwan pointed out that he already knew some people at Harvard, because they attended his prep school. "It helps coming from Exeter, because there are a lot of people who you can talk to and ask advice from," Kwan says. "Even if they're not [from Exeter], though, I've found people here are friendly and willing to help...
...Professor Laiou seemed really enthusiastic about her subject," says Kwan about the welcome in Paine Hall. "I also went to see a lecture on the American Revolution and Professor [Bernard] Bailyn was also very interesting...
...going is tough for Western journalists in Jakarta. Doors are shut to all but the craftiest, and Sukarno has whipped up anti-West feeling to a fever-pitch among the masses. But Hamilton catches the eye of the most fascinating character of the movie. Billy Kwan, a diminutive Eurasian photographer who seems to be the most well-connected person in town. Kwan, played by a woman, Linda Hunt, takes a liking to Hamilton and gets him a prized interview with the leader of the Indonesian communists who are about to launch their doomed coup of 1965. An unlikely team...
...Embassy after a whirlwind, cardboard romance. As the hottest ticket in Jakarta's diplomatic community. Sigourney Weaver again makes heads turn But like the other subplots that spring up every five minutes, their relationship is almost irrelevant to the film's most important point the struggle by Hamilton and Kwan to work out for themselves how to deal with the frighteningly immense human problems they must confront every...