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...wrote his senior thesis on governmental reform and volunteered for the Phillips Brooks House Association. During his senior year, his teaching fellow in a Spanish class put him in touch with a school on Manhattan’s lower east side, which catered to at-risk Latino youth. After graduation, he worked there for two years before returning to Boston and continuing his role as an educator there...
...events coordinated by the Undergraduate Council and aimed at sparking discussion of mental health-related issues among students, administrators, and UHS. Last year, the UC named April “Mental Health Awareness Month,” tying a series of similar events into its push for academic calendar reform. This year’s organizers “concentrated” the events into one week and are emphasizing the importance of open discussion of mental health issues, said Tamar Holoshitz ’10, a UC representative and one of the primary organizers of the week?...
...decade. His to-do list also includes cutting corporate and property taxes, reducing business regulations, shrinking the size of government and luring more foreign investment. Even before taking office, he announced plans to eliminate a handful of ministries, including the Ministry of Unification, which oversees relations with North Korea; reform the university entrance system; and strengthen English language education in public schools to increase the country's global competitiveness...
...Whether Lee wins that and other struggles may depend largely on national assembly elections in April. Currently, the country's parliament is dominated by liberal opposition politicians who can block Lee's reform efforts. But many observers think Lee's conservative Grand National Party stands a good chance of picking up enough seats to control the assembly, citing as evidence the outcome of December's elections in which many liberal candidates were defeated. Says Cheong Inkyo, an economics professor at INHA University in Incheon: "The people have already indicated they want a change." South Korea's first CEO President says...
...brother, and had been making perestroika-style noises since taking over as interim President after Fidel underwent major intestinal surgery 18 months ago. As a result, now that Raul has full presidential powers, many Cuba watchers had expected younger faces to emerge - widely anticipating, for example, that Raul's reform-minded economy czar, Carlos Lage, who in relative Cuban terms is a positively teen-aged 56, would become First Vice President. Lage instead remained as a subordinate Vice President. Meanwhile, hard-liners such as National Assembly leader Ricardo Alarcon, 70, whose stars were thought to be fading like the paint...