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...journal dedicated to informing the campus about Hinduism-related issues. Yanamadala has also worked closely to organize events with the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations. During his sophomore year, he led the effort to organize 25 student groups to hold a banquet which benefited victims of the tsunami in Pakistan. The next year he was elected secretary of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations’ Student Advisory Council, a role in which he oversaw a budget of $50,000 for student activities. Overall, Yanamadala sees his work outside the lab to be very important...
...survey conducted in 13 states, which indicated that one in two children had been sexually abused, often by people familiar to them. Interpol warns against molesters masquerading as aid workers to get close to poor, orphaned children in the aftermath of natural catastrophes such as the 2004 tsunami. Even under normal circumstances, cultural norms and social structures complicate matters. Most Asian societies are both sexually repressed and respectful of elders-a double whammy when it comes to dealing with sex offenders. From a young age, children are taught not to talk back to elders, which makes it harder for them...
...Giuliani's move is a clear bet that social conservatives' power in the nominating process will be broken bv Tsunami Tuesday - the Feb. 5 super-primary featuring such mass-market states as New York, California and New Jersey. "He understands that there are a lot of Republicans out there who are sick of everyone kowtowing to the single-issue extremists," said one veteran Republican observer in Washington. "He's breaking from the pack...
...public campaigns, particularly young people, were involved in that. You can see in the environmental campaigns people playing a part where previously they'd not been involved. It's a narrow definition of politics that suggests that people who are not interested are totally cynical. When we had the tsunami it's effect in Britain was that millions of people were prepared to give donations or offer help to Asia. Politics has got to find better ways of engaging people...
...schools install loudspeakers all over campus so students can be notified immediately of a life-threatening crisis? Sending an e-mail is a little like sending notices by post to a population about to be hit by a tsunami. That said, those of us living and teaching in Canada are very saddened by the events at Virginia Tech and send everyone our sympathies and support. Benet Davetian, CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA...