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...years, Indonesia's leadership has matured. In a region where one nation's political system is still reeling from a military coup (Thailand), another's top economic advisers are confounded by runaway inflation that's threatening much-vaunted growth (Vietnam) and the politics of a third is mired in racial recrimination (Malaysia), Indonesia - led by its first-ever directly elected President - has emerged as Southeast Asia's unlikely star...
Sticking mostly to scholarly concerns, Hammonds did touch upon current affairs, including the rise of mixed-race presidential candidate Barack Obama. She discussed the norm of using phenotypic, rather than genotypic, racial identification. Obama is just as much Caucasian as he is African American, she emphasized, though he is identified as the latter because of his appearance...
University President Drew G. Faust addressed a gathering of black community members yesterday, just weeks after an incident involving the Harvard University Police Department sparked a debate about the University’s racial climate...
...after two to three years, people like to think there’s been a change, and they don’t have to be on top of the issue anymore.”Her criticisms come at a time when the University has turned its attention to the racial climate on campus. University President Drew G. Faust created a committee to review the Harvard University Police Department’s policies following an incident involving two police officers last month.Smith has yet to select a new diversity dean. He said that he is consulting with Senior Vice Provost Judith...
...Before his flight from Rome in 1943, Mussolini reigned over an iron-fisted dictatorship. He instituted one-party rule, eliminated basic freedoms, and ordered the killing of political opponents. In 1938, Italy instituted racial laws which helped pave the way for the subsequent deportation of thousands of Italian Jews to Nazi death camps...