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...values. I cannot judge myself, but I believe I would not score very highly on religious value. I do not believe that prayer can cure, but that prayer may comfort and help. At the same time, I've seen my closest friend [former Finance Minister] Hon Sui Sen on his deathbed; he had had a heart attack and was fighting for his life, doctors were there, the priest was there, but there was no fear in his eyes. He and his wife were devout Catholics. They were both convinced they would meet again in the hereafter. I believe...
Students and faculty members voiced support for restructuring the South Asian Studies program in a roundtable discussion held last Friday, an event at the Barker Center chaired by Professor Sharmila Sen ’92 and sponsored by the Humanities Center and the Asia Center at Harvard.The seminar was part of the South Asia Humanities Seminar series and was entitled “Studying Asia at Harvard.” The discussion addressed many of the issues facing the expansion of the South Asian Studies program, including thesis resources for graduates and undergraduates, the future course offerings of the South...
Representatives from the Harvard College Library (HCL) traveled to Guangzhou, China in mid-November to dedicate an unprecedented donation of about 140,000 books given earlier this year to Sun Yat-sen University. The books, which cover a range of subjects and were originally part of Radcliffe’s library, are all duplicates of other HCL holdings that became available when Hilles Library was downsized and converted into the Quad Library earlier this year, according to Heather E. Cole, librarian of Lamont Library. Harvard sent Cole, Librarian of the Harvard-Yenching Library James K. M. Cheng, and Associate Librarian...
...struggling with five-year budget cuts that at the moment tally $50 billion in the House and $35 billion in the Senate. Legislators must also grapple with a host of contentious policy issues before they reach for the eggnog and mistletoe. Against a threatened presidential veto, Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain will continue to forcefully defend a popular bill that would ban torture of prisoners in U.S. custody. Before Christmas, legislators are also expected to undertake an extension of the USA Patriot Act, which provides anti-terrorism tools to law enforcement, a Band-Aid for troubled corporate pensions, and immigration...
...used to combat health disparities in the Boston area. “This marks the beginning of a bold new effort to solve one of health care’s most troubling problems—health disparities that affect so many Americans because of their backgrounds,” Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56, D-Mass., said at a press conference announcing the grant last Tuesday. “It’s high time we eliminated these disparities—and I’m proud that Dana-Farber and UMASS-Boston...