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...within a year, the South Asia Initiative (SAI), which is affiliated with the Asia Center, will establish its international presence in Mumbai, India with an office physically adjacent to—but substantively separate from—the HBS center...
...offices of the President and Provost have been very supportive in providing initial-phase operational funding for the SAI,” writes SAI Assistant Director Rena Fonseca in an e-mail. She adds that they have also been supportive in “providing thoughtful perspective, space in the new building, and many other kinds of support, both tangible and intangible...
Assistant Provost Buffington says Summers and Hyman also encouraged collaboration and support between HBS and SAI. Summers told HBS Dean Kim B. Clark to look at the new Mumbai Center as a “modular system,” according to Buffington. The modular model, Buffington says, recommends that schools or centers looking to expand abroad should seek partnerships with other sectors of Harvard in the area. When convenient, as in the case of the HBS and SAI centers in Mumbai, they should share office space and administrative support with other Harvard groups...
...resulting characters-Chinese gangsters, Filipina bar hostesses, Korean cabbies-may be poor and desperate, but they're never pitiful. Even the least likeable characters are rascals rather than villains, while the good guys are flawed, picaresque heroes. Being an immigrant, in Sai's world, isn't about preserving cultural traditions. It's a street sensibility that comes with a clear-eyed perspective on Japanese society that most of the country's directors-trapped in a fishbowl of stylized genres and stock characters-sorely lack. The result is that the outsider depicts a more realistic Japan than his pure-blooded contemporaries...
...Blood and Bones, which was adapted from a semiautobiographical novel by Korean-Japanese author Yang Sok Gil, is a departure from Sai's freewheeling, often humorous style. But the director's gutter humanism and Kitano's steely meanness fuse elegantly in their portrayal of a ruthless man who, as he builds a new life for himself in Japan, is gripped by a need to destroy what he creates. Even as we're repulsed by Kim's violence and heartlessness, we're seduced by his survivor's charisma-in fact, Kitano's performance is so compelling that Kim's victims have...