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...encourages us to make ethical commitments as citizens that align our material needs to our moral ends.” Waters, who founded the renowned restaurant Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Calif., as well as a non-profit cooking and gardening program for middle school students in the Berkeley area, spoke of her belief that “food is woven into the fabric of life.” Stressing the importance of engaging youth in the process of growing, cultivating, and cooking food, Waters said, “I’m just hoping that this can happen in every...
...Xing’s weapon of resistance, he said yesterday, is his memory. Chinese documentary filmmaker and writer Xing spoke at a screening here yesterday of his film “A Chronicle of My Cultural Revolution,” which details personal childhood horrors he and his generation experienced during Mao Tse-Tung’s Cultural Revolution during the 1960s and 1970s. In an event jointly sponsored by Harvard’s Fairbank Center for East Asian Research and the New England China Seminar, Xing juxtaposed the brutality he witnessed with the history perpetuated by the Chinese government...
...Theda R. Skocpol. “For the first time in four decades, America can go in a very promising direction or continue on a very, very sad path,” Skocpol said. Former Iowa governor and Fall 2008 Institute of Politics Fellow Thomas J. Vilsack, who also spoke at the event, told listeners that they had the opportunity to make history in November. Mack, who reflected on his memories of being Obama’s classmate at HLS 20 years ago, spoke to Obama’s assets as a candidate. “We finally have...
...former U.S. diplomat in Shanghai who began his career as a translator for a ping-pong tournament between U.S. and Chinese competitors spoke here yesterday on China’s path to modernization. Douglas G. Spelman, who served as Consul General in Shanghai for three years, was the featured speaker for the Neuhauser Memorial Lecture held at Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Spelman, who was an East Asian history Ph.D. candidate at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the time that he had his first foray into Chinese-American relations with...
...Spoke out against former president Thabo Mbeki's denial of AIDS/HIV