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...history. The influx of Irish, Italian, and Jewish immigrants in the early part of the 20th century was met with a great deal of ill will, and the existence of racist laws in our past and the popularity of quasi-nativist candidates like Pat Buchanan certainly reflect a similar “anti-other” attitude. In the past, however, xenophobia has largely been relegated to a portion of the Republican base. Today it seems to have crossed party lines. When Republican Presidential candidate Tom Tancredo says things like “[immigrants] are coming here to kill...
Casey estimated the average Harvard rate to be between 60 and 70 percent, though the rates vary for the three schools that receive Defense Department funding—Harvard Medical School, the School of Public Health, and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS)—to reflect more accurately the “actual cost of research” at each school, he said...
Sometimes Zell, 66, shares his views with friends through an annual New Year's e-mail, in which he changes the lyrics of a song to reflect his thoughts. In January 2006, he opined on the private-equity boom through a remake of Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head--changed to "Capital keeps rainin' on my head/ So much is out there that the world is out of whack/ When will we see balance back?" The ending: "We need to be prepared for slim annuities...
...designer labels. As the self-designated spokesperson for Asian designers, perhaps it should seek awareness of fashion consumerism’s impact on the Asian region as well. After all, it is the priority of developed and developing economies worldwide to fulfill the needs of the societies they reflect. To determine what these needs are, each one of us has the social responsibility to decide the aspects of consumerism that arise from internal satisfaction versus external manipulation...
Organizer Asher A. Fredman ’08 said he hoped the discussion, part of a week of events called “Jewbilation,” would give students a chance to reflect on the role of Judaism in their lives...