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...that contentious course material might be censored or altered—especially considering that the Chinese government regularly restricts access to certain sites it deems “subversive.” In this case, Chinese officials have promised not to censor the courses, but we are hesitant to trust them to hold to their word. Even recently, when China was bidding to host the Olympics, it indicated that it would improve the human rights situation within its borders, and it has so far failed to live up to those promises. We hope that the requirement that the Education Ministry...
Tufts University and Lesley University announced yesterday that they had received a combined gift of $272 million, the largest donation that either school has ever received. The universities will evenly split the money from the trust of Frank Currier Doble, founder of the Boston-based Doble Engineering Company. Doble, who died nearly 40 years ago, majored in electrical engineering at Tufts and served as a trustee at Lesley for over two decades. Calling the gift from Doble’s trust “phenomenal,” Lesley President Joseph B. Moore said that “there?...
...would stop shaving her legs. In his recent Philadelphia speech on race, in which he acknowledged the grievances of blacks and whites, Obama was consciously channeling his mother. "When I was writing that speech," he told nbc News, "her memory loomed over me. Is this something that she would trust?" When it came to race, Obama told me, "I don't think she was entirely comfortable with the more aggressive or militant approaches to African-American politics." (See pictures of the world reacting to Obama...
...supposed to directly represent him. The job of teacher in an inner-city Baltimore school is difficult. In the first year as teacher, you’re just trying to make it through. Teachers come and go all the time, and the students don’t trust you. The biggest challenge is just trying to keep a semblance of order, making connections, building friendships. Some of the poorer students don’t have even basic needs met, such as getting the necessary textbooks or getting proper nutrition. You have to take those things into account.THC: And was there...
...said Putin, praising his American counterpart?s integrity and reliability. For his part, Bush did not spare words to heap up praise on the man whose soul he claimed to have glimpsed back in 2001, when they first met in the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana, and decided he could trust...