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...sweaters? Or is it something more menacing—peer pressure to conform? No, the kids at my high school sporting black, safety-pin-perforated clothing hadn’t been very clean, but they always had something interesting to say about civil liberties. In high schools like mine, clothing was meant to signal political views as well as social membership. And at high schools everywhere, clothing can also be a means of sparking debate; just this past week, Bretton Barber, a 16-year-old high school student in Dearborn Heights, Mich., was sent home for insisting on wearing...
When a group of 15 executives from multinational mining companies met with Wen Jiabao, China's Premier-designate, in late 2001, they hoped to be getting face time with a kindred spirit. The execs, among them heavyweight representatives of giant mine operators such as Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, wanted to discuss the opening of China's mineral-extraction market to foreign investment. Wen, a geologist by training, was in a position to make a difference as the country's Vice Premier. As everybody sipped green tea in a meeting room at Zhongnanhai, the Beijing leadership compound, Wen listened politely...
...death of Fred McFeely Rogers, there was almost a palpable sense of national trauma. And yet at the same time, many of us were left wondering how this old-fashioned program, so manifestly out of touch with contemporary realities with its perky “Would you be mine, could you be mine, won’t you be my neighbor?” melody, could have produced such a powerful sense of loss...
...afraid it wouldn’t take me back. Upon arriving here and presenting myself at the superintendent’s desk, I was thankful to receive the Harvard sacrament: an ID card with my freshman photo and name freshly embossed on it. Now the coveted status is mine again, and with it access to all that makes a Harvard life perky: dining halls, libraries, Quincy House, Crimson Cash...
Although lingering longer in the Tea House was tempting, we declined a fourth round of tea. Tony brought the check on a black tray that balanced individually wrapped fortune cookies. “Patience is a virtue,” mine read—an expected ending to an unexpected meal...