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...role as a leader among universities, Harvard ought to take the initiative in refashioning affirmative action along the lines of Obama’s post-racial vision. Race-based affirmative action has played an important role over the course of its four-decade existence. But socioeconomic-based affirmative action is now the more effective way to fight for social justice...
...vision of an environmentally friendly Harvard is of a school committed not only to reducing its ecological footprint, but also to producing the next generation of environmental leaders. This vision will never be a reality without big improvements to the College’s environmental curriculum. With these reforms, Harvard will not only better serve its discouraged nonscientists, but it will help answer what is perhaps the most pressing sociopolitical question of our time: how to build a more just and sustainable society in the years to come...
...Sakamaki notes, it's the Uighurs who will be the ultimate losers. Beijing's vision of a harmonious and unified China offers little space for a people as culturally different as the Uighurs. State media often raise the specter of fundamentalist terrorism, despite the peaceful and tolerant nature of the Uighurs' brand of Islam. Young people are being weaned off the Uighur tongue and blocked from attending prayers at mosques. Historic districts in storied Silk Road cities like Kashgar and Khotan are being torn down and replaced with drab housing blocks. "In the face of China's modernity project," says...
...ENHANCED VISION...
...gourds grow heavy on the vine, and the catfish splash merrily in their ponds. At the Learning Center of Sufficiency Economy in Southern Thailand's Yala province, the vision of Thai agriculture as set out by the country's King Bhumibol Adulyadej has reached its fecund best. Like many other parts of Thailand, villagers come to this agricultural laboratory to learn from the monarch's Sufficiency Economy philosophy, which bundles together concepts of sustainable development, rural self-reliance and equitable income distribution. But there's a difference to this vast botanical project: unlike others in the rest of Thailand, this...