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...works with spices and ceremonies, arranged marriages and zany in-laws: in short, deploying the stalest, most predictable tropes in the Orientalist handbook. Book reviewers stateside pat themselves on the back for compassing “world literature”; arts supplements splash their fronts with selections of the month like Anita Desai’s “Fasting, Feasting” or Aravind Adiga’s “The White Tiger.” Enthusiastic reception notwithstanding, however, the “local color” in which these books traffic reduces perceptions of the region...
...endowment spending by as much as $50 million this year in light of a Massachusetts state law passed this summer, but they have not yet decided how to take advantage of the new legislation, Harvard’s Chief Financial Officer Daniel S. Shore said in an interview this month...
...Last month, Harvard renegotiated terms to an agreement with a South Korean foundation that loosened restrictions on a $13 million endowment established in 1975 for Korean studies. The funds, which were originally dedicated to endow a senior faculty member’s position in the field, can now be used to support tenure-track faculty, visiting scholars in the department, and students studying the economy and society of modern Korea...
...Nina] has been working as hard as she possibly can to learn the technicalities of field hockey in the last month,” Goodman-Bacon said. “She has a great positive attitude and perseveres through everything...
Tuesday night’s incident prompted HUPD’s second community advisory this month...