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...virus may not have infected Boston yet, but Harvard students are already feeling its effects. For Francisco J. Marmolejo ’12, a sustained outbreak could mean not returning to his hometown of San Luis Potosí in Mexico for the summer. “There is a sort of fear [in San Luis]. People are afraid to go out. Everyone wears face masks,” said Marmolejo, describing phone calls from friends and family back home. “I was thinking about going back, but now I’m just going...
...South Africa, which originally aimed to eliminate racism and xenophobia. Eight years ago, the proceedings rapidly descended into a “hate fest” as Muslim-majority states hijacked the stage as an opportunity to berate Israel and the West. While Durban II was not the same sort of vitriolic, one-sided attack that many had expected, it was nonetheless far from constructive. As such, Durban II simply served as a blunt reminder of the United Nations’s hypocrisy, ineffectiveness, and entirely unrealistic goals...
...course Web site. Malan, who was first appointed a lecturer at the Extension School during his senior year at the College, says that he aims to constantly change and improve. Yet in spite of the praise he has received from students, Malan characterizes his path to teaching as sort of a fluke. “I never imagined that I would be doing what I’m doing right now. I started teaching because I wanted to get better at public speaking,” says Malan, “My junior year of college...
Tian can’t single out one specific turning point in her career. “I suppose that everything that happens in your life sort of contributes to what you become one day.” She smiles again...
...precisely the sort of conservatism that’s ascendant in today’s much-reduced Republican Party, from the talk radio dials to the party’s grassroots. And a Cheney-for-President campaign would have been an instructive test of its political viability...