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...skit in the context of the long history of antagonism between Japan and China believed so. The following day, Oct. 30, word of the performance had spread, and many of the campus' 18,000 students concluded the Japanese had been out to humiliate China. Posters appeared on dormitory walls. "Protect our nation, throw out the attackers," read one. Rumors that the Japanese had worn pig's heads and had racist insults written on their costumes circulated quickly via mobile-phone text messages and Internet bulletin boards. More than a thousand angry students massed outside the foreign students' dormitory and sang...
...could even jeopardize the fragile peace. President Chandrika Kumaratunga's moves last week to sack three senior ministers, suspend Parliament and impose a state of emergency?all while her Prime Minister was overseas?represented, even her party members admit, a naked power grab rather than an attempt to protect "national security" as she claimed. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's return to Colombo three days later and his triumphant procession to the cheers of tens of thousands were, his supporters agree, premature victory celebrations. To the north, the decision by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to recall...
...when Countess Simonetta Brandolini d'Adda, an American who has lived in Florence with her Italian husband for 30 years, saw the need to help protect and preserve the city's staggering cultural legacy, she thought of her own countrymen. "So many Americans have a special rapport with Florence," says Brandolini, who sells and rents out luxury Italian properties through her real-estate agency, The Best in Italy. "They come back to Florence all the time." Thus in 1998 was born Friends of Florence, fashioned after the nonprofit art and architecture preservation foundation, Save Venice. Although based in Washington...
Summers wanted to know how to protect the Harvard community from the epidemic, which was spreading rapidly in China and had already infected several Americans...
...Harvard University is 18,000 students packed in like sardines,” he said. “It’s a bloody epidemic waiting to happen. How do you protect the University and do the least to limit the freedom of individuals...