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...Myong Suk's husband did not intend to leave China but accompanied her to the Laotian border. That was critical; it meant there was no need for safe houses, since the authorities would see just an ordinary couple traveling through the country. On Dec. 9, they boarded a train headed for the city of Kunming in southern China. Several days later, with the help of two fixers hired by Peters, Kim reached China's southern border with Laos...
College athletes are today disparaged as “professionals” even if they don’t violate the compensation technicalities. If they train hard to become skilled, they are dismissed as “pros.” Being a good athlete is fine, but there is something wrong with becoming a very good athlete. Superb Harvard athletes are suspected of not being what former Princeton president William G. Bowen calls “regular students” in “Reclaiming the Game,” his indictment of intercollegiate athletics at selective colleges...
...months, from initial tissue engineering to creating the original design of the device to microfabricating it in the University’s Center for Nanoscale Systems cleanroom. Parker praised the project as a “tour de force of engineering—far beyond what we train.” Chelsea S. Simmons ’06 and Robert J. Everett ’06 tied for second place, applying their engineering skills to create projects that would improve surgical techniques. Working with DePuy Spine, a Massachusetts-based company dedicated to the manufacture of orthopedic devices, Simmons developed...
...fencing her,” Cross said. “After I won that and got into the semifinals I actually began to think I could go on to win it.” She praised Harvard’s fencing program and its coaching. “The training environment here is very different to what it was at home,” she said. “Even though there are fewer people here to fence, they’re a lot more motivated and it’s a lot friendlier and more intense...
...Kennedy School of Government is expected to launch an executive program next January in New Delhi to train India’s highest level civil servants. The program, which arose from an initiative by the Indian government to improve their civil service training, will coach members of the Indian government in leadership, policy analysis, and world economic issues. Christine Letts, associate dean for executive education, said that the program offered a great opportunity for the Kennedy School. “India is on the precipice of major contribution to the world and are undergoing a lot of changes in terms...