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...entrepreneurial business culture. As recently as three years ago, Ho Chi Minh City (still informally called Saigon) took in 30% of the country's foreign direct investment (FDI) and generated 40% of exports-despite the fact that the former capital of South Vietnam is home to less than a tenth of the country's population of 84 million. Indeed, Vietnam's economic growth was so uneven that a 2004 United Nations Development Program report fretted in its title, "Why Don't Northern Provinces Grow Faster...
...Kong restaurant in Harvard Square.SCORPION BOWLS AND STAND-UPBut while Greenbaum takes advantage of The Comedy Studio, few other Harvardians do.“There’s so much for Harvard students to do,” says Rick Jenkins, who runs the Studio, which recently celebrated its tenth anniversary.Producers from “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” have scouted a number of young comics at the Studio—which unlike the bar at the Kong, welcomes minors—some of whom went on to perform on the show.Jenkins is especially...
...Harvard fencers Emily Cross and Benji Ungar have proved their worth again, beating professional competitors to take home a medal each at the World Junior Fencing Championship in Taebacek City, South Korea. Cross was awarded a second consecutive gold medal in Women’s Foil, rising from a tenth-place ranking after the preliminaries to take an easy 15-5 victory over Arianna Errigo of Italy in the finals. Ungar, seeded ninth after the preliminaries, defeated Ciprian Lapuste of Romania 15-9 to advance to the Men’s Epee semifinals, in which he fell to Feng Wang...
...crew Margaret Wang’s fourth-place finish in B-division was easily enough to allow Harvard to come away with the victory. OBERG TROPHY Garrity and Wang returned to action Sunday for the Oberg Trophy in Cambridge, where the team struggled in an 11-team field, taking tenth overall. The two guided the A-division to a fifth-place finish, but trouble came in the B-division, when junior skipper Marion Guillaume and freshman Kerry Anne Bradford finished last.WOMEN’S DELLENBAUGH TROPHY The lone women’s regatta of the weekend featured some shuffling...
...helped the Harvard women’s fencing team to its second consecutive Ivy title, and now Emily Cross has collected a second straight individual glory, with her victory in this year’s World Junior Fencing Championship in Taebacek City, South Korea, yesterday. Cross, despite a tenth place ranking after the preliminary qualifications, soundly quashed opponent Arianna Errigo of Italy 15-5 and win the gold in Women’s Foil. “Obviously that is a harder road to travel,” said Harvard Fencing Coach Peter Brand of Cross’s relatively...