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...Taiwan, Hong Kong and China" last week while accepting a Best Director Oscar for his gay-cowboy romance Brokeback Mountain, the mainland returned the love. The state-run China Daily called Lee "the pride of the Chinese people all over the world" and "the glory of Chinese cinematic talent." But it ignored the fact that Lee was born and raised in Taiwan, which China considers a breakaway province. Lee's shout-out to his fellow Taiwanese was excised from the mainland broadcast of the Oscars?as was a speech on gay love, which is widely stigmatized in China. While Beijing...
...first season donning the Crimson jersey, Wilson has been one of a number of key players that have brought Harvard to this point through its depth, balancing the star talent it boasted over the last few years...
Slobodan Milosevic was not the only culprit in the bloody breakdown of multi-ethnic Yugoslavia, but he can be assigned the bulk of responsibility. He had a unique talent for bringing out the worst in everything and everybody he touched. He brought out the worst in Serbs, and provoked retaliatory responses from the Croats, Bosnians, and Albanians. A political opportunist, he picked up ideologies such as nationalism, socialism, and even democracy itself, and perverted them to suit his own needs, discarding them when they no longer served his purposes. He burned bridges between nations and peoples that took centuries...
...can’t get a job, or can get a job but can’t afford to live here. Like the rest of the Bay State population, Harvard graduates are victims of the high cost of living in Mass. Employers know that there is a lot of talent in the Boston area, but they also know that they can pay lower salaries if they operate in a state with a lower cost of living. Such “in-country outsourcing” can force students to leave a place that many have become attached to. With property...
...have an opportunity to be vetted. Summers also stressed the need to ensure that employers are “fishing in the largest possible lake” when they are looking for women leaders. “Those who deny themselves access to a portion of a pool of talent are not just discriminating or being unfair,” he said. “They are sacrificing their opportunity to be excellent.” At Harvard, Summers said the University can make progress by alleviating responsibilities for families with young children. Summers said that...