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...doctors have told him that he has one month to live. Flyers on campus and Alan's personal plea on his Web page detailed the accomplishments of his academic and professional career, and how much Alan means to his friends and family. Since Alan's likely tissue type match will likely be Asian, the drive pushed to register Asian donors. Promotional posters singled out the Asian community, and volunteers distributing flyers around campus waded their way through crowds to zero in on Asians (or at least those who appeared to be Asian). Unfortunately, the drive was only an effort...
...population-are registered in the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP). (By contrast, over two-and-a-half percent of Asian Americans, or 200,000 Asians, are registered in the NMDP.) Organizers could have actively encouraged every able-bodied member of the Harvard community to register their tissue type. But they didn...
...worst consequence of the drive's exclusive recruitment effort is that someone who turned their back on the registration drive might have been a tissue type match for a person in need. In fact, Alan's perfect tissue type match might not even be Asian. This is not entirely implausible: one of the two individuals found to be a near-perfect match, possessing five of Alan's six antigens, is a white woman...
Meijia said that the type of interaction this event fostered could be continued if an institute for Dominican-American relations were created at Harvard...
...Madam, I am going to shoot you' after her film's premiere," recalled Mehta of Fire's opening in Trivandrum last spring. The Indian-Canadian director knew she was breaking taboos but had no idea how resistant her viewers would be. "In India, there is no word for the type of love Sita and Radha share," she explains, and the existence of homosexuality is mostly denied by conservatives. What bothers men most about the film, Mehta says, is not the homoerotic tendencies it unveils, but the empowerment it gives wives over their husbands-a shift in the traditional power structure...