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...regarding Resident Deans, the lack of student representation on the Board, and other issues of transparency are resolved, the Ad Board will continue to be a source of frustration among students.A decision en masse to pursue disciplinary cases before the SFJB instead of the Ad Board will hopefully impress upon the Administration a need for urgent change. And with a clear mandate from students about the need for change, we hope the Ad Board Review Committee can quickly push forward much-needed reform, for that is the only path to judicial fairness at Harvard College...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Board Games | 11/30/2008 | See Source »

...Maybe I didn't need to swallow up half of the Rolling Rock and Ecstasy for sale in central Maryland. Maybe I didn't need alot of the things I consumed ... What if I found a way to turn the terrible, seductive beast of indulgence against itself?" He settled upon the arbitrary numbers of 800 calories a day and $8 a week: "It was a strange calculation, and by all acounts a dangerous one ... Could I do it again? I don't know. Would I? I'm even less sure. But I do know this: Hunger is power. And everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Story of Self-Induced Starvation | 11/28/2008 | See Source »

...made five films - Born to Defence (1986), The Master (1989), Once Upon a Time in China (1991), Fist of Legend (1994) and Fearless (2006) - in which he protects his countrymen from cruel and rapacious foreigners, mostly Americans. In 1994's The New Legend of Shaolin, he is a Han Chinese rebel fighting against Qing (or Manchu, and thus foreign) rule. In Hero (2002), Li is an assassin who, to his own detriment, abstains from an attempt on the life of the Qin King, who goes on to become the venerated Qin Shi Huangdi, the first Emperor of China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Liberation of Jet Li | 11/27/2008 | See Source »

...Life After Life Seven years before, at the age of 34 - when he stood upon the summit of the Chinese film world but had yet to venture into international markets - Li was already having existential ruminations. "I started thinking about life," he says. "I started wondering what it is people want. Is it money, power or fame? Is it to see yourself in TIME?" Over the next seven years his fame increased exponentially, but he was unable to completely enjoy it and ended up engaging over 20 different Buddhist teachers. "The main idea taught by the different kinds of Buddhism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Liberation of Jet Li | 11/27/2008 | See Source »

Several years ago in the town of Merauke, on the southern coast of Papua province in Indonesia, a young woman was diagnosed with HIV. Upon learning that she had been infected by her boyfriend, according to a local doctor, the woman decided to take "revenge." She began sleeping with as many men as possible, asking only for a copy of her partner's identity card. Shortly before she died, she told her family to look under her pillow, where they found 50 photocopies - evidence of her self-proclaimed campaign to infect as many men as possible before dying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Papua Proposal: A Microchip to Track the HIV-Positive | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

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