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...late father, a 1941 Harvard graduate and a professor of Chinese history at Berkeley for whom the award is named. Other members of the Levenson family also attended the banquet. Though he never met Levenson, Puett said he worked with many people who knew his fellow Chinese history scholar well, and he said he thinks of Levenson as his teacher by association. “I certainly would hope to consider myself part of that legacy,” Puett said. —Staff writer Chelsea L. Shover can be reached at clshover@fas.harvard.edu...
Even more daunting, according to scholar Huang Jing, is the institutional resistance to change. Huang, currently a visiting fellow at the University of Singapore's East Asia Institute, says there is a huge bulwark of entrenched officials (in the United Front Work Department - a bureaucracy dealing with Tibetan matters - the Public Security Bureau, Foreign Affairs, the Religious Affairs department, the Communist Party in Tibet and the Minority Affairs Department) who have spent their lifetimes railing against "spilittism" and not only can't imagine any other approach but would fear losing their jobs under any new arrangement. Thus, Huang says, essentially...
...being asked to kill or capture. "While in general they are prepared to fight, if you put them into a sectarian battle, you still have to wonder if their commitment to the country is greater than their commitment to their own sectarian group," says Michael O'Hanlon, a military scholar at the Brookings Institution...
...make a cease-fire stick, he'll have demonstrated an alarming cohesion within the militancy. "If the militants are able to shut down attacks, and keep them shut down for this period of time, it proves that the terrorist attacks were not by freelance bombers," says Marvin Weinbaum, scholar in residence at the Middle East Institute in Washington and a former Pakistan expert at the U.S. Department of State. "What they can turn off, they can turn back...
...what universities specialize in—the propagation of ideas,” said Alfred A. Brophy, a law professor at the University of Alabama who specializes in civil rights litigation and reparations. “As Emerson said, ‘The role of the scholar is to retest old assumptions.’ What Harvard was doing in the years leading into the Civil War was less retesting old assumptions and more telling people that the institution of slavery was right...