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...Harvard and this country two months ago. Hailei died in an apparent suicide; his death sent shock waves through Chinese communities across the nation. We hope a lesson can be learned from this heart-wrenching tragedy. In this letter, we will address several issues pertinent to Harvard University, offer some suggestions and look forward to working constructively with the school to improve the present conditions...
...array of existing supporting networks for its students, most notably the Harvard International Office (HIO) and the Bureau of Study Council (BSC). These institutions and programs help thousands of international students every year for which we are all very grateful. There are some suggestions we would like to offer to further improve these programs...
Insofar as this is true, whiteness studies has very little to offer academic, not because "white trash" cannot be an interesting area of study, but because, as West told me, "[t]he whole construct of white trash, which is just as arbitrary and can be just as vicious an any other construct, is what it means to be a particular kind of American, but white American." In other words, people who may be called "white trash" are different from other impoverished members of society only because they are white, but they are not more indicative of white culture, or American...
...making a radical move to improve their "quality of life"--arguably the signature preoccupation of this decade--these new emigres are acting out a fantasy shared by tens of millions of Americans. Since the migration is likely to accelerate in coming years, their stories offer a sneak preview of what life may one day be like for others toying with the same idea. To understand how these expectations are playing out in one small town that's climbing the growth curve, TIME looked at dozens of towns with expanding economies and populations ranging from 5,000 to 20,000 (anything...
Part of Clinton's plan calls for the U.S. government to invest in such technologies as solar cells to drive the cost of production down, and to offer tax breaks to companies that do the same. But such measures would have to get past a hostile Congress. Americans proved during the oil-price shocks of the 1970s that they can get interested in energy efficiency when prices shoot up; if anything can curb greenhouse-gas emissions, it is the free market. Unfortunately, the price of oil in constant dollars is close to what it was in the car-happy 1950s...