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...government program to send minority workers to the coast. "They can't get work in their own province, so they go to the far corner of the country to seek jobs," says Dru Gladney, an expert on Islam in China and president of the Pacific Basin Institute at Pomona College. "They are recruited by the government, and then they feel like government doesn't defend and protect them. They feel discriminated against. They can't win at home and they can't win far afield...
...Gladney, a professor of anthropology at Pomona College in California and an author of numerous articles and books on the region, said it was particularly notable that Sunday's protests took place in Urumqi, where Uighurs make up a tiny proportion of the population. "Urumqi is the center of Chinese power and influence in Xinjiang, and there haven't been any protests there since the early '90s, which makes this very, very unusual," said Gladney. Bequelin of Human Rights Watch concurred, noting that not only is the Uighur population small, but also that the city was already under very tight...
...first years after Proposition 13 passed, the state was able to get by because it had a surplus," says David Menefee-Libey, a political scientist at Pomona College. "But because the state is now responsible for funding local government and school districts the demands on state resources became too great. The second strategy followed by [Governors Gray] Davis and [Arnold] Schwarzenegger has been to finesse the fiscal crisis by using budget gimmicks and by borrowing to bridge the yearly budget shortfall. Now both options are exhausted...
...third of seven children, Solis served as a role model for her younger siblings by becoming the first person in her family to attend college, at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona...
...Fitzsimmons noted that the early program deadline went against Harvard’s decision in 2006 to end its nonbinding early admission program.A representative from QuestBridge declined to be interviewed.‘I MIGHT HAVE APPLIED’One QuestBridge Scholar, Jackson W. Brebnor, currently a freshman at Pomona College in California, said that the QuestBridge program’s early deadline meant he ruled out Harvard before he knew more about it.“I felt like not being informed about Harvard as a college was an issue. If I had known the liberal arts feel...