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...human rights are now in the firing line." But for the National party's Mapp, they can't come soon enough. He believes "dangerous people" could slip in "buried in the numbers of people who overstay their visas and those who come in under humanitarian quotas." Buchanan says the latter is unlikely. The country's U.N.-agreed refugee quota is a tiny 750 a year, and of the 1,200 or so people who, like Zaoui, claim refugee status on arrival, fewer than 20% are accepted. "The easiest way in," he says, "is to get yourself a business visa, wear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law and Borders | 5/12/2004 | See Source »

...words did little to settle debate over the extent of China's overheating or the prospects for a soft landing. The latter is "possible but difficult," says Morgan Stanley's chief economist for Asia, Andy Xie. Because of the country's underdeveloped capital markets, "China doesn't have the instruments to fine-tune the economy," he says. And what does Greenspan think? Chinese authorities "are wholly aware of a rate of growth in a number of industries which are not sustainable," he said last week. With unruly markets hanging on their every word, both Greenspan and Wen are being careful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wen Words Matter | 5/10/2004 | See Source »

This new department which has been recently organized is designed eventually to supplant the department of Social Ethics, although all men who chose the latter field before last October may continue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PERRY WRITES ON NEW DEPARTMENT | 5/9/2004 | See Source »

...having heard a talk given by Manning Marable, the eminent African-American historian at Columbia University, as part of the 2004 DuBois Lectures at the W.E.B DuBois Institute. Marable’s final lecture noted the shift in the politics of affirmative action that had taken place during the latter half of the 1990s and insisted that the current generation of students re-engage with the concerns of his generation. As he reflected at one point, his own personal experience with Jim Crow was thankfully part of the past—and yet it was an instructive, pointed lesson that...

Author: By Christopher J. Lee, | Title: Lessons of Struggle | 5/7/2004 | See Source »

...have it be very decentralized, hoping that everything will work out or two, you can try to provide high-level coordination such as helping with logistics, gear rental and providing information on how to be safe. In both cases, people are responsible for themselves, but in the latter case, they will be better prepared...

Author: By Margaret W. Ho, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Scale 40 Peaks Over Weekend | 5/4/2004 | See Source »

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