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...makes it an easy target for predatory Chinese corporations. If that weren’t incentive enough, rampant housing discrimination makes Tibet a nice prospect for any Chinese entrepreneur. Most of the new subsidized housing—which the Chinese government made room for by razing thousands of Tibetan monuments??are given to new “Chinese settlers” to provide these new-age colonizers with the most comfortable facilities available. If current trends continue, the Tibetans may become a minority in their own homeland...
...contains no less than thirteen monuments??one to President [John T.] Kirkland, one to Professor Ashmun, whose remains are interred beneath and 11 others to instructors or to students of the College, it would seem that some steps should be taken to improve its appearance,” wrote W.G. Stearns on Oct. 23, 1856 on behalf of the superintendent of Mount Auburn Cemetery, who complained about a path overgrown with grass and the lack of a boundary around the plot...
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