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...ideology and cities like Shanghai boast skyscrapers and bustling shopping malls, the deportment of some citizens evokes an era of subsistence. Even some members of the new bourgeoisie indulge in conspicuously boorish behavior, like hawking phlegm onto the pavement or picking their noses at business meetings. "Chinese have gotten rich so fast, they haven't had time to learn the manners that usually go along with wealth," says Hedy Lee, a Chinese-American etiquette educator in Beijing, who recalls a recent sign in her apartment's elevator requesting residents not to urinate or defecate in it. "If we want...
...residential communities during their first year. But even Yale-style housing constitutes a woefully incomplete recipe for real House community; for a given freshman to develop an affinity for his House—grounded in anything other than propinquity-by-necessity—House life must be rich enough to win his affections away from the myriad student organizations that claw at undergraduates’ time and loyalties. Most recently, the debate has turned to House Committee (HoCo) funding. Late last month, the Undergraduate Council (UC) announced changes to the way in which it will fund HoCos. But while...
...resurgent governing Left in Latin America, however, the reality is that the summit's goal of eliminating poverty by creating jobs can't be achieved without a certain level of economic globalization, especially in the form of prodigious U.S. investment. Before the gap between Latin America's rich and poor can be narrowed, the gap between Washington and Latin America has to be bridged as well...
...Latin nations banded together to nudge Washington's Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) proposal off the agenda. The move, which has angered the Bush Administration, reflects growing skepticism in Latin America over the virtues of free-market reforms, which many believe have simply widened the chasm between rich and poor in a region that already displays the world's worst disparities in wealth...
Haruki Murakami smiles at the camera with a discomfort that belies his popstar-like fame as one of Japan’s best-selling authors. His pop-culture rich novels featuring intelligent, urban, isolated characters have formed a new literary genre in Japan, its authors called “Murakami’s Children.” Harvard Professor of Japanese Literature Jay Rubin, who has translated several of Murakami’s books into English, poses alongside him. The two chat with each other in Japanese, attempting to dispel the awkward silence interrupted only by the sound...