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...most Harvard students, checking a box for race on the application was a simple task. Yet in 1998, the most current year for which statistics are available, 16 percent of undergraduates chose to identify themselves as "other" or "unknown," according to the Harvard University Fact Book. Due to the paucity of multiracial or biracial students' organizations at Harvard, these students are left searching for a place to fit in. If they want to get involved with an ethnic organization, they must choose which aspect of their heritage to identify with. It is appalling that in a diverse college community like...
...American Identity," and having a handful of social studies and sociology courses dealing with multiculturalism and racial identity. But these seem to be only token gestures, made in a futile attempt to appear accepting of diversity. It is almost as though the College chooses to ignore the 16 percent of students who refuse to fit into just one of the boxes on the application...
...cars but also to the ubiquitous family of Explorers, Expeditions, Range Rovers and the like. The institution of these new standards, to be required in all 2004 models, will be helped along by the EPA's strict new directive to refiners: Reduce the sulfur content in gasoline by 90 percent. This two-prong approach is critical, because cars using gas with lower sulfur levels produce less pollution - and make automakers' anti-smog adjustments more effective...
...democratic institutions in Russia to create a top-down pro-Kremlin party from scratch and then, with huge infusions of cash and a stunningly popular patriotic war in Chechnya, build it into a front-runner," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. The result, in which upward of 70 percent of voters appeared to favor parties backing presidential candidates of varying authoritarian stripe (both Putin and Primakov, remember, are products of the KGB), looks set to give President Boris Yeltsin his friendliest legislature since the collapse of communism. But Putin's bid to be the boss Russian voters clearly crave...
...Although he has alarmed the country's traditional elites as well as foreign investors with his left-leaning policies and his overt admiration for Cuba's President Fidel Castro, Chavez last week received a ringing endorsement from his electorate when 72 percent of voters supported his new constitution in a referendum. The constitution entrenches the president's power and allows him to potentially remain in office until 2012. It also affirms state ownership of Venezuela's oil industry, which Chavez hopes will fuel his "new economy" that redistributes wealth among the poor. While the flood is a win-win scenario...