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...been embroiled in an escalating debate over the value of diversity. Before a special referendum was held late last semester, the student government’s constitution contained a provision for “diversity senators” to serve in the student government. Conservative students objected to the notion of granting so-called diversity seats to groups that “feel their community’s voice has been silenced.” The parsing of diversity is all too often skin deep, and the conservatives at Amherst understood that these seats were devised with certain groups...
...Shang Fulin will have to choose. Will he push ahead with stock-market reforms that might drive down prices, or will he delay these reforms even though they are urgently needed to protect investors? Back in Kunming, Chen Xuesong hasn't yet abandoned that fraying notion of the market as a road to happiness and hope. For now, he's letting his bets ride. "At least maybe I'll make back some of what I've lost...
...them directly, stressing instead the accomplishments that over 700 Corps volunteers have made as teachers and mentors throughout Russia. But Patrushev, a friend of Vladimir Putin, is apparently not convinced. With little tradition of volunteerism in Russia, the one-time cold warrior may simply have trouble with the notion of idealistic young Americans coming to Russia to do good. Or maybe he's just been reading too much Graham Greene...
Annie Proulx has the number worked out. "Wyoming has 2.1 people per square mile," she tells you. Whether or not she has her math right, it would be fair to say that it represents her notion of congenial population density. After living long and hard in 13 small towns in Vermont, with regular excursions to a house she still keeps in Newfoundland--a place for people who think Maine is overcrowded--she has put down for some years in Centennial, Wyo., a microscopic settlement west of Laramie at the foot of the Medicine Bow Mountains. Just outside town there...
...Messenger. Rather than complaining to their friends about how much work they have and then sequestering themselves for all-nighters, students should discuss thesis research and tutorial paper topics with their peers. Problem sets should be done together over pizza, not just over gnawed pencils and TI-83s. The notion that being social is a form of procrastination stresses students out even further and discourages necessary and potentially productive downtime from Harvard schedules. We shouldn’t close ourselves off and demand a work-free social life or social-free work...