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...Sometimes, migration or living in different cultures can either make you a bit claustrophobic or defensive about your identity - and I think we may all go through that phase when we are in that migratory period - but it also can let you open up and let you feel happy about the fact that you have these different inputs and different cultures that you can use as resources. But this mixture of cultures I think also has, for me, done one more thing. You can see that Greeks in the diaspora have been very successful. I think one thing...
...added, the panel—which took place at the Office of Career Services and was co-sponsored by several organizations on campus, including the Harvard College Women’s Center—encouraged her to be more open in her search for a diverse range of mentors...
Crucially, this corrective would make employment practices more equitable. After this change, the significance of a students’ employment history would no longer correlate with the significance of their finances, but instead result from a process of an open contest among all socioeconomic classes. Society can and should remove structural and economic barriers to employment, and firms will have no choice but to survive the increased demand on their resources. If the U.S. eliminates such obstacles, it will move one step closer to making RFK’s question a relic of the past...
...College will be closed to students from Dec. 22 to Jan. 15, 2011, but the campus will open for their return on Jan. 16—approximately a week before second semester classes commence, according to Hammonds' statement to the undergraduate community...
Initially, Kyrgyzstan stood out among the newly independent Central Asian republics for its sound, multi-party democratic system. While its neighbors returned to authoritarian rule, built on networks of patronage run by Soviet apparatchiks of old, Kyrgyzstan became relatively open, buoyed in particular by an outspoken civil society. However, by the mid-1990s, Askar Akayev, president since the republic's inception, took an autocratic turn. He shielded business monopolies owned by friends and family and cracked down on journalists who pried into allegations of corruption - all the while, Kyrgyzstan's economy floundered, its Soviet-era industry and agriculture withering away...