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...United States distract themselves with China’s efforts to avoid a public-relations catastrophe before and during the Beijing Olympics, perhaps they should pay more heed to another growing problem. Though the nascent squeeze on rice supplies appears to have remained under the Western radar thus far, it has the potential to directly affect more people and cause even more violence than the horrors we have heard of from Tibet...
...your application is someone who is both focused and accomplished, yet open to change. You don't need to be overly interested in business per se; rather, you need to be interested in the intersection of your personal passion, signature issue, or academic interest with the potential social impact. Thus, if you have a passion for biology, you would do better presenting yourself as someone interested in how biology can cure disease among groups a, b, or c, rather than someone obsessed with Biotech companies and their relative stock values. HBS will "transform" you into the latter...
...wife’s scholarship in Scandanavian and comparative literature and culture. “They were an intellectual power couple before that was a popular phrase,” Gomes said.Stendahl took the helm of the Divinity School in 1968, the same year that Gomes graduated, and thus presided over his Commencement ceremony. But in an unlikely turn of events for a Harvard Commencement ceremony, the day was rained out. Stendahl was bestowed the responsibility of deciding which of the students were going to be able to fit inside Sanders Theatre, Gomes said. “With great humor...
...composer four times. It is in the form of Leonore Overture No. 3 that this operatic composition has received its greatest success. The HRO’s performance of the short overture, despite handling the crescendos in an almost too-professional manner, still sounded harmonious—thus creating great expectations for what was to come after the intermission. However, to the conductor’s surprise, the stage was only partially full when the brief intermission ended. One of the bass players was missing in action, but this hindrance did not prevent Yannatos from sticking to the schedule...
...Though he had spoken about the Holocaust on a visit in 2006, bringing it up in New York - and making it personal - carried a new significance. "My own years as a teenager were marred by a sinister regime that thought it had all the answers" and "banished God and thus became imperious to anything true and good." He told his young listeners to thank God that they had instead grown up in a society that promotes democracy and human rights, but warned that "the power to destroy does remain," embodied in social ills such as drug abuse, homelessness and poverty...