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...During a three-year period of administrative flux under the tenure of three University presidents, GSAS’s financial support to humanities graduate students fell behind rival schools...
...Denouncing this practice cost Biscet not only his physician’s license and his home, but all claims to liberty. After being released from an initial three-year sentence, Biscet continued to advocate for freedom of speech and the extension of human rights to the Cuban people, creating the Lawton Foundation for Human Rights. After organizing a peaceful meeting at a friend’s house to discuss human rights violations in Cuba, the state police barged in, dragged the men onto the street, and beat them while their spouses and children watched. His perseverant focus on human rights...
...share a common writing system, it's easier for Chinese to gain fluency in Japanese than in Western languages. Still, no amount of linguistic proficiency makes up for potentially abusive immigration policies. Take Tokyo's practice of attracting foreign labor under so-called practical-training visas, which allow for three-year internships. In 2005, more than 55,000 Chinese entered Japan under this scheme. But last year alone, the program, by the government's own count, suffered from 4,639 cases of worker-rights abuse in which unscrupulous employers took advantage of uninformed immigrants. Hikaru Morita, a senior consultant...
...hard, at the time, to shake the idea that the all of these athletic successes were somehow related, that on both the collegiate and citywide level we were being blessed with the perfect sports season.Now, here we are in 2008, and it’s all happening again. After three-year championship droughts for all three teams, the magic of 2004 is creeping back into the Boston area, from Foxboro and Fenway to Harvard Stadium and the Yale Bowl. The Red Sox have already done their part, while the Patriots are working on nothing less than one of the greatest...
...Harvard Business School professor whose name is often raised as a possible future leader for Hong Kong--is chairman. At the family's weekly Sunday brunches at a mountainside luxury tower that houses three generations of Fungs, the brothers usually pair off to talk shop. But unlike many other Asian companies, which are treated as opaque clan fiefs, Li & Fung produces a straight-talking triennial three-year plan, and the brothers are regularly ranked as top managers in Asia...