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...admits reluctantly. But he adds, “To me, it doesn’t seem like, within 25 years, Harvard is going to make any large advances in ethnic studies.” Having waded through bureaucracy already, Yeh is cynical. “Unless students press for it, there isn’t going to be much change,” he says...
...nowhere else where love of country comes so easily and devoid of complication. In many other places, patriotism is best kept hidden or trotted out only on trivial occasions like soccer games. In Britain members of the intelligentsia would not be seen dead, my dear, with a Union Jack--unless it were some campy '60s relic of Carnaby Street. In France the Tricolor flies from every town hall--but I have never seen one outside my French friends' houses. If you lived through the horrors of Europe's last century, patriotic fervor is a dish that comes a little...
...idea, especially since the basis for doing so was religion. India and Pakistan are intrinsically bound by common history and cultural heritage. A formidable number of Muslims decided to stay in India after the partition, confirming the absurdity of carving out two separate countries. There will be no peace unless the countries unite. VASUDEV PARVANI Vancouver, Canada...
...shift production to China at the rate they are now, Japan's envied $48.96 billion trade surplus will slip away entirely and become a deficit within five years. "Japan has to move up the economic ladder, and shift trade from goods to services and intellectual property," Xie says, "unless it wants to go back to being a poor country again...
Romania has also objected. In December, officials in Bucharest pledged to block the law unless some of the benefits, such as facilitated work permits, were extended to all Romanian citizens - a concession that Hungary, under pressure, agreed to make. Still, local officials like Mayor Funar have threatened to fire civil servants who apply for the cards. Ordinary residents of Cluj-Napoca are also also worried. "It's like a fence that is being put up between two neighbors," frets Marinella Oancea, 54, a travel agent. "It's a provocation...