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...cast in the North Korean film Nameless Heroes, playing the part of an evil U.S. imperialist. Jenkins also became convinced that he was unwittingly being used as an asset in another way: to produce Western-looking children that the state could turn into spies. In the mid-1970s, the Americans were allowed to consort only with Korean women the government believed to be infertile. (When Abshier unexpectedly got his Korean girlfriend pregnant, she disappeared.) The regime then decided the deserters should marry foreigners from among the East European, Asian and Middle Eastern women brought to North Korea against their will...
...English in Asia, remained one of the magazine's most popular features, even when Asian readers far outnumbered expatriates. In 1997, the Review snared one of the biggest scoops ever in Asia: an interview with Pol Pot, the Cambodian dictator responsible for the Killing Fields of the mid-1970s, who died half a year later. Asia has lost one of its most measured weekly pulse takers. Numbers 142 Number of U.S. newspapers that have endorsed Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, including the New York Times and Washington Post, compared with 123 endorsements for George W. Bush...
...mid-1970s, evolution, free love and antiwar sentiments were at the forefront of young people’s consciousness. “Going to business school wasn’t the most sensitive thing to do,” explains Cheryl E. Owens-Howard...
Harvard can do better. Harvard has done better. The last two reviews, one in the mid-1940s and the other in the mid-1970s, established the idea of a Core curriculum and committed Harvard to teaching “approaches to knowledge,” respectively. Where those reviews were guided by forceful and visionary principles, the review currently underway has failed to articulate any coherent theme, and is stuck trying to convince the greater community that study abroad, dubbed “internationalization,” mixed with a long-called-for reworking of the Core is somehow avant...
Under the leadership of Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) is in the midst of its first major review of the Harvard College curriculum since the mid-1970s. The report issued this spring offers a set of proposals that we believe will strengthen undergraduate education at Harvard and prepare students well for their post-college lives. Next year, the community will debate and refine the proposals and prepare to implement changes in the undergraduate curriculum...