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...head responsible for installing a computer in every room and for setting up wi-fi Internet access throughout. There's even some family history behind the inn. It's actually a converted shophouse that was built on a plot granted to the Tulyanond's ancestors by King Chulalongkorn (Rama V). The land has been in the family now for seven generations, and as you would expect, plenty of care has been lavished on the building that stands on it. Rooms are simply but stylishly appointed with teak furniture, while the odd family heirloom and pieces of pottery hand-painted...
Eliot: Jay A.H. Butler, Katharine C. Hinkle, Meghan V. Joyce, James G. Levine, Daniel W. Shoag, Zachary B. Singer, Ying Sun, Dina S. Wang, Shengping...
...Ladd, the director of Harvard’s international office.“Since the business community is very interested in expanding the cap, it is likely that there will be relief in this area,” she wrote in an e-mail.Some students were more fortunate than Rana.Victor V. Bicalho ’06 said he submitted his petition on May 25, and was told by lawyers for his future employer, Goldman Sachs, that it was filed on time.Other students said their future employers are not fazed by the prospect of having their new employees forced to leave...
...Just why African American students tend to perform below what prior grades and test scores would predict remains an unsolved problem.”DOUBTING DIVERSITYThe University defended its admissions policies that considered race a factor in an amicus brief it filed with other universities in the 1978 Bakke v. Regents of the University of California and again in the 2003 Grutter v. Bollinger.“The race of an applicant may tip the balance in his favor just as geographic origin or a life spent on a farm may tip the balance in other candidates’ cases...
...wooden predecessor: It was built of concrete and would play tough defense against visiting arsonists.WORLD ON FIREThe Harvard Stadium press box was not the only flash point that spring. On April 23, 1981, a 28-year-old Vietnamese immigrant named Nguyen Cheu hurled a Molotov cocktail at Long V. Ngo ’68, who was participating in a University forum on Vietnam. Ngo was unharmed, but the firebomb injured one of the policemen escorting the scholar to his car.The attack sparked a fierce debate between those who claimed Ngo was an apologist for the reeducation camps of an oppressive...