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...before they walk and sort their friends by continent but can't answer the question "Where are you from?" without a pause. It's not just Western kids in Asia who feel this tug of conflicting identities: Asians in Europe face exactly the same sense of internal conflict. Lili Sin Hidge is a Malaysian-raised Hong Kong Chinese living in London. She has two teenage daughters with her husband, a Eurasian who grew up in South Africa. "They're much more free to do what they want," she says of kids in England. "But I want my children...
...parental duty to admonish the crime. A group of us had been huddled in a closet smoking cigarettes. I had actually just exited the closet when the teacher came and busted everyone else. I'd got away with it, but my classmates' glaring looks shamed me into confessing my sin. Of course, I didn't tell my father those details. I made myself out to be a budding George Washington, whose crime was a Marlboro Light instead of a cherry tree. His letter made me feel I'd snatched victory from the jaws of juvenile delinquency...
...most, the road to Lamont involves a trudge up Quincy Street or a trek across Tercentenary Theater. For Pete Knipfing, the journey involved Boston bars, Tennessee truckstops, and a serious love of all things involving “Hellhounds, Sin City, and women of ill repute.” But Knipfing didn’t quite take this road less traveled by to Harvard’s academic halls. When speaking of Lamont, he isn’t referring to Harvard students’ favorite pre-exam hangout, but to his own Lamont Band which touts...
...RETIRED. Jaime Cardinal Sin, 75, Archbishop of Manila, whose call for Filipinos to defy former Philippine strongman Ferdinand Marcos started the People Power revolution of 1986; in Manila. In the predominantly Catholic archipelago, Sin wielded enormous influence on such issues as government support for birth control, which he opposes. But the height of his power came in 1986-and again in January 2001, when Sin encouraged a second such public demonstration, which forced President Joseph Estrada from office. The ailing Sin, who suffered a mild stroke this past March, cloaked determination with a puckish sense of humor, greeting visitors...
There’s truth to the popular joke on campus that among the crimes Harvard will not tolerate, the penalties for plagiarism, Blair’s cardinal sin, are worse than those for rape. This year’s guidebook for incoming first-years—in its 1,900 word diatribe on cheating, which dwarfs its token 400 words on sexual assault—warns students to resist the temptation to elevate grades over conscience. Although Harvard administrators “do not suggest that they expect students to be dishonest in their work,” they...