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...city can never be great if the majority of its population is taught that everything good is foreign. The cosmopolitan city glamorized in your report is a city of cultural orphans brainwashed into becoming submissive to myriad foreign cultures that have been filtered through a colonial sieve. Pierce Lam, HONG KONG
...from extinct. It claims some 400,000 members, and garnered 7.3% of the vote-from 4.92 million voters-in the most recent legislative elections in 2005. "The JCP is probably the most successful non-ruling communist party in Asia, if not the world," says Lam Peng Er, a research fellow at the National University of Singapore's East Asian Institute...
...virtue of actually standing for something-even if what it stands for is "a socialist/communist society," as stated in its manifesto, in a decidedly capitalist country. "The JCP is a boutique party, but it's the only political party in Japan that has a strong grassroots organization," says Lam. "In a way, the communists are probably the most modern political party in Japan." Despite holding just 18 of the 722 seats in the Diet, the JCP often functions as the only genuine opposition to politics-as-usual in Tokyo. Communist politicians have repeatedly uncovered damaging financial scandals in government-they...
...Nathaniel J. Lubin ’09 is a government concentrator in Lowell House and the director of Harvard Students for Barack Obama. Robert G. King ’09, a Crimson editorial editor, is a history concentrator in Winthrop House. Eva Z. Lam ’10 lives in Thayer Hall. Both King and Lam are assistant directors for Harvard Students for Barack Obama...
...Lam said she was disappointed with the audit because it does not address the different sizes of the comparatively larger AlliedBarton security guard union and the smaller in-house museum guard union...