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...enables Chinese manufacturers to sell their products to American consumers at highly competitive prices, fueling the U.S. trade deficit. But overall, the growth of China as a market is still seen as beneficial for the Asian economy, which needs all the help it can get following December's devastating tsunami. Thanks in part to the Chinese boom, Japan, which was stagnant for much of the 1990s, is growing again. China last year overtook the U.S. to become Japan's biggest trading partner. China accounted for 20.1% of Japan's total trade, compared with 18.6% for the U.S. The panelists expect...
While only two groups have competed in the jazz festival for the past two years, there used to be at least three or four. Everett said the timing of this year’s festival, which occurred in the same weekend as the tsunami relief concert, may explain why more groups didn’t sign up. But he added that the benefits of having fewer acts included each group getting to play longer and the opportunity to have a jam section for the first time...
With Cultural Rhythms, the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations hopes to encourage students to embrace their own identity. The Foundation also helped organize “Changing the Tide,” this past weekend’s concert for the benefit of the Harvard College Tsunami Relief Effort. The premiere presentation of the Foundation, however, has traditionally been Cultural Rhythms, which the Foundation has been producing almost since its inception...
...Performance of the Week Two former U.S. Presidents, Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush, arrived in Asia last week on a four-country tour to keep the world's attention focused on the aftermath of the Dec. 26 tsunami. The pair?in Democrat blue and Republican red, respectively?visited a stricken village in southern Thailand on their first stop; an emotional Bush praised "the spirit of the Thai people" while Clinton stressed the need "not to forget these people and places when all the cameras are not there...
Benegal spoke last Friday afternoon at an event hosted by the South Asia Initiative, to benefit tsunami victims in South and Southeast Asia, shortly before the world premiere of his newest film at the Harvard Film Archive. That presentation focused less on Netaji itself than on problems of identity and representation Benegal has encountered more generally throughout his career. After an introduction by Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs and the Director of the South Asia Initiative, Benegal discussed a number of issues in contemporary Indian film and culture, grouped loosely under the theme...