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After a week of rainy weather, Harvard students in at least five Houses complained about leaks in their dorms this weekend. The leak problem affected students in both River and Quad Houses. A number of Currier and Kirkland House residents complained to their House open e-mail lists of leaks, and water was reported by students in Mather, Eliot, and Lowell Houses as well. Currier resident Colleston A. Morgan Jr. ’07 said he found his dorm room carpet soaked with water on Saturday morning. Morgan said he responded to the problem by calling University Operations Services...
...work with HMC staff—a group with which he met on Friday.“You can think of me as an admiring observer of Harvard and I’m now thrilled to be part of the community,” he said.Situated across the river in Boston in the Federal Reserve Building, HMC has traditionally operated at a degree of distance from that community.But El-Erian expressed eagerness to forge closer ties. In hopes of “connecting the pipes” between HMC and the Harvard community, El-Erian will join the faculty...
...floods along the Yangtze River in 1998, Lu might still be tilling his family's paddies. The floods left 200 fellow villagers homeless, and the government promised $2,000 per family in compensation. Lu says because of local corruption, not all the money reached the families. In 2001, Lu bought a copy of China Reform-Rural magazine, which educates peasants on their legal rights. He visited the magazine's office in Beijing and talked with its editors. Later, the magazine invited Lu to a conference on peasant rights with China's leading legal scholars. "I realized then that I could...
...witnessed this situation firsthand near the city of Jinan, where a farmer who had been elected by villagers to be their chief was beaten up by people suspected to be cronies of the local government's defeated candidate. Similar events unfolded this summer, when farmers in the Pearl River Delta village of Taishi tried to orchestrate a recall motion to oust a village chief. Although the villagers had the law on their side and had collected the requisite number of signatures, their efforts failed...
...That was then. Last week, Lu was beaten unconscious in the Pearl River Delta town of Taishi, where? accompanied by a journalist from the Guardian, a British newspaper?he had gone to help residents impeach their own village chief. "Three hundred meters from the village headquarters, we were stopped by men on motorcycles and the car was suddenly surrounded by many people," Lu told TIME last week, speaking in a safe house in Wuhan. "They recognized me and said 'That's the one!' I guess they'd been shown my picture. They opened the door and dragged...