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...find little acerbity in sober tales of places like the Dadaab refugee camp or Kibera, a slum in southern Nairobi. "I was shocked at what I saw, but I also had to be careful not to damage Care's standing in the community," he says, explaining his decision to rein in his biting prose. "This is primarily a fund-raising exercise." Bryson will donate all proceeds from the book to charity. African Diary is unlike any of Bryson's previous work in both subject matter and tone, but it is still sprinkled with amusing anecdotes. There's a hair-raising...
...addition to preparing for a second installation, Rein would ideally like to hit the talk show circuit and travel around China as a guest lecturer. His real love, however, is teaching. “Education is the key to everything. I don’t know what I would do if I couldn’t teach,” he says. In summer 2001, he taught English to children in China and lectured on English literature in the Philippines as a guest professor at the University of Manila. At Harvard, he worked as a TF for Professor Eileen Cheng...
...Rein earned his masters at Harvard in regional studies, focusing on American, Chinese and Japanese trilateral political and economic relations. Harvard was appealing for graduate school because in Rein’s opinion, “it has the best program for studying China’s political economy.” “I also wanted to come to Harvard to become one of the leaders in America to help bridge the gap between America and China. I find a shocking level of ignorance about China, even at the highest levels of American government,” Rein...
...Rein also dreams of having his book showcased alongside Harvard Girl Yiting Liu, a publishing phenomenon in China that remained on its bestseller list for over a year. In Harvard Girl, the parents of Yiting Liu ’03 share their approach to parenting and their educational theories. Projecting into the future, Rein has begun collecting essays for a second book, which may include essays from other top colleges within the United States...
...irony of it all is that Rein reveals that he would have disliked Harvard as an undergraduate because of the “pressure.” He insists that unlike the rest of his high school class at St. Paul’s in New Hampshire, he had no interest in coming to Harvard as an undergraduate and ended up at McGill University in Canada, where he graduated in spring of 2000. “I wanted to learn French, I wanted to get out of the United States, and I wanted to learn about a new culture...