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...Both Lin and Harvard head coach Tommy Amaker were quick to dispel the notion that the team’s recent two-week break for exams had anything to do with its poor free throw shooting in particular or its performance overall...
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Geithner, despite the rhetoric before the Senate, understands this better than most. He spent much of his career in the 1990s at the Treasury Department working on international issues, with particular emphasis on Asia. He understands how complex the bilateral economic relationship with China is and will probably be inclined to resist pressure to formally cite Beijing as a bad actor on currency. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...Russell Henderson—comprise the entirety of the script. Each actor played multiple characters, which ranged from members of the Tectonic Theater Project to police officers to the murderers themselves. The actors were able to switch between characters with ease. Sam L. Linden ’10, in particular, strikingly portrayed two very different characters: Jedadiah Schultz, an eager university drama student who learns about his own prejudices against homosexuality and works to correct them, and Fred Phelps, a conservative minister from Kansas who preaches against homosexuality at Shepard’s funeral and his attackers’ trial...
...first phase to the public. Visitors can sit at a simulated interrogation table and take tours of cramped barracks that were segregated by race. New arrivals were detained for anywhere between two weeks and two years before being admitted into the U.S., or sent home. The Chinese encountered particular difficulty. As a consequence of the Chinese Exclusion Act, which severely curtailed Chinese immigration for more than six decades, Chinese detainees endured aggressive and lengthy questioning, intense suspicion and outright racism. Though most were eventually admitted into the country, the wait was tortuous, driving some to take their own lives...