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Exiting the elevator, inside the office proper on the far wall, there’s the Harvard Alumni Association sigil. It’s a huge shield with the letters “HAA” on top and, below, a depiction of a road that narrows to a point, as if far in the distance. The wall decorations are sleek...
...China carried out the execution of Akmal Shaikh, a British citizen convicted drug smuggling who became the first European to be executed by China in 58 years. The British government cried foul and protested on the grounds that the man was mentally ill and was not given a proper assessment of his condition during his trial. Many Chinese nationals see this incident and are proud that after half a century, China has finally grown enough of a spine to stand up to the Western imperial powers that defeated them in the Boxer Rebellion and the Opium Wars...
This announcement came three days before freshmen will receive their housing assignments and after more than four years of yearning on the part of the Kirkland House Masters to rid the House of the overflow housing, which is located three blocks away from Kirkland proper...
Opinions regarding DeWolfe vary across the Kirkland community. Kirkland House Master Tom C. Conley said that students’ satisfaction scores on the House life surveys have suggested that residents prefer to live in Kirkland proper as opposed to DeWolfe, but Kirkland House Committee Co-Chair Kelly N. Bodwin ’11 said that some are sad to lose rooms known for their spacious interiors and in-room kitchens...
...latter often get "adopted" by people who turn them into household slaves called restaveks or force them into prostitution. One of the more bizarre elements of the saga surrounding the 10 U.S. missionaries who were caught trying to ferry 33 children out of the country without proper documents is that the Dominican man who served as the missionaries' legal adviser, Jorge Puello, is wanted in El Salvador and the U.S. on human-trafficking charges, accusations he denies. (See exclusive pictures from Haiti's devastating earthquake...