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...sentiment is part of the problem,” Ho says. “The impression is that past silence means it’s okay.” Harvard’s Asian-American community in general, to the dismay of many leaders within it, has historically been slow to anger and reluctant to speak out against perceived injustices. The Boxer Rebellion affair is symptomatic of a greater issue: when dealing with racism that takes more subtle forms than threats of violence or ethnic slurs, as Ho puts it, “You find yourself in this gray area...
...Harvard is trailing 2-0 at the half. While Zizzo seems to be all over the field, the Crimson is just a half-step too slow. Could it be the jetlag...
...sentiment is part of the problem,” Ho says. “The impression is that past silence means it’s okay.” Harvard’s Asian-American community in general, to the dismay of many leaders within it, has historically been slow to anger and reluctant to speak out against perceived injustices. The Boxer Rebellion affair is symptomatic of a greater issue: when dealing with racism that takes more subtle forms than threats of violence or ethnic slurs, as Ho puts it, “You find yourself in this gray area...
Arab countries have some of the world's fastest-growing rates of HIV infection, but their governments and religious authorities have been slow to address the problem. That was the message last week from a Cairo conference organized by the Arab League and the U.N. Development Program, which drew together more than 300 leading religious figures from 20 Arab countries, and was jointly led by Sheikh Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Mosque - which is influential throughout the Sunni Muslim world - and Pope Shenouda III, head of the Coptic Orthodox Church and President of the Middle East...
...equal to the scale of the challenge. For example, the amount of treatment drugs made available through the public health system in Sudan is well short of the number of infections in that country. And in civil society, the enormous social stigma associated with the infection hinders efforts to slow its spread. That stigma discourages people from being tested, because acknowledging infection has been known to lead to sufferers being rejected by neighbors, families and employers...