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Student organizations on campus have also mobilized to collect donations to fund the international relief effort for the tsunami, which killed over 150,000 people in several nations across South Asia...
...Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, said he hoped that the community would remain committed to the relief effort...
...cataclysmic disaster, with a death toll expected to surpass 150,000 and an expected cost surely to be counted in the billions of dollars, two undeterred tourists imbibe on the beach, obviously more keen on finishing their vacation than on lending a much-needed helping hand to the massive relief effort. Their senseless indifference to this terrible loss and to the plight—ongoing and forthcoming—of those whose cheap labor made their vacationing possible in the first place, to say nothing of the 2,400 foreign visitors counted among Thailand’s dead, is staggering...
...photographs of relaxing western tourists, which have run in newspapers around the world, smack of gluttony, ignorance and even depraved indifference for human lives. World, and especially western, governments who have pledged billions in emergency relief cannot be satisfied by the contradictory message sent by hedonistic tourists carrying on their vacations as if nothing happened. Muslims, who constitute a large proportion of the population in much of the tsunami-affected area, cannot be comfortable at tourists’ consumption of alcohol under any circumstances, least of all when they are spending their days in a desperate search for a future...
...leadership in the new financial aid initiative, which significantly eases the tuition burden on low-income and middle-income Harvard families. We can fairly assume that he was similarly instrumental in the University’s recent decision to match the contributions of Harvard affiliates for tsunami relief in Southern Asia. All the while, Summers has presided over an endowment increase to the tune of several billion dollars...