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...either-or-situation,” he said. “The solution must come from joint collaboration with the Han and Tibetan peoples.” An upsurge of violence between protestors and Chinese government troops flared up in March of this year surrounding the status of Tibet’s self-declared government-in-exile. “Ultimately we are here today to listen to different perspectives on this situation,” Holcombe added. Panel member Tenzin Dickyi ’08, a Tibetan born in India, recounted her two-and-a-half-month stay...
...Michael Chabon) to one in which the principal voices weren't born here, like Lahiri, Edwidge Danticat (born in Haiti), Gary Shteyngart (Russia) and Junot Daz (the Dominican Republic). They're transnationals, writers for whom displacement and dual cultural citizenship aren't a temporary political accident but the status...
...real-world celebrities with the vague sense that they could do a better job themselves, the recipe for celebrity is complex. And in spite of GossipGeek’s arbitrary dictums on whose blurry cellphone photos and dubious dining hall sightings are newsworthy, some people retain more celebrity status than others. So what do they have that I don?...
...Perhaps organizational involvement is the key. One relatively reliable indicator of someone’s celebrity status is the number of e-mail lists he appears on. On this count, again, I fail. The closest I ever came to celebrity-esque domination of the e-mail sphere was when I inadvertently stayed on the Speech and Debate mailing list all last year because I couldn’t figure out how to remove myself...
...Harvard celebrity. I can take photos, send them to GossipGeek, maybe even make the front page. But this self-promotion will accomplish nothing unless people find me interesting. And with our skeptical attitude towards celebrities at large, Harvardians tend to look dubiously at anyone with aspirations to the status of “big man on campus.” Indeed, other than a few “actual” celebrities like Natalie Portman, the occasional figure skater, and the offspring of oil barons, Harvard celebrities are an eclectic lot, tangibly unified by little other than their high friend...