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...town with a halo and has worked hard ever since to prove he's a mere mortal. Obama, 44, has focused on important but low-profile issues, such as making sure the U.S. is prepared for an outbreak of avian flu and securing nuclear-weapon stockpiles in the former Soviet Union. He has reached so often across the aisle on, say, controlling Katrina spending, that some Democrats complain he won't be their firebrand...
...That's particularly the case for Hu, says Pei, because he has had the least exposure to the outside world of any Chinese leader since Mao Zedong. Hu's predecessor Jiang Zemin spent his early years in Shanghai, China's most cosmopolitan city, studied in the Soviet Union and reveled in his trips overseas; he was proud of his ability to recite from memory chunks of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. By contrast, Hu studied only in China and spent much of his career in its remote, impoverished western provinces. Jiang "liked to make jokes" with his foreign hosts, says...
Masood Farivar ’94, a former member of the Mujahideen resistance that fought the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, came to the U.S. for the first time in 1989. After applying to the College, Harvard suggested that he spend a year in an American high school. Farivar attended the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey before applying to Harvard again...
...recent applicant.” He also said that “the comparison [between him and Rahmatullah] is a little odd,” as he was a not “special-status student” like Rahmatullah and had previously been a member of the anti-Soviet resistance, not the Taliban...
...president Hu Jintao will visit Washington to huddle with George W. Bush. And well the two of them might, for the Chinese-American relationship will decide the course of our century just as much as the hot wars with Germany and Japan, and the cold war with the Soviet Union, determined the fate of the last...