Word: visitations
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...April 1 news article "Chinese Student Leaders Visit Campus" gave an incorrect name for one of the groups that organized the Ivy-China U.S. Invitational. The group's name is Global China Connection, not Global China Communication...
During their two-day visit to the campus, which began late Monday night, the delegates met with student organizations including the Harvard College Association for US-China Relations and the Chinese Students Association...
...This visit is the first exchange sponsored by the Ivy Council, an organization comprised of student government leaders, student group leaders and students from eight ivy-league institutions. Last May, the Ivy Council sent a delegation of members to visit universities in China...
...university administration has acted quickly in its own defense. The president, Fr. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., has described Obama’s “visit as a basis for further positive engagement,” and not as “support [for] all of his positions.” And Douglas W. Kmiec, Obama’s most ostentatious Catholic booster during the election, panegyrized the President as a real “fightin’ Irish,” like Notre Dame, “when it comes to working for social justice.” American...
Nixon was the first U.S. president to visit the Asian nation and the jaunt, which came smack in the midst of the Cold War, was a huge boon for the President's public image. The trip ended with the Shanghai Communique, a joint statement from China and the U.S. that pledged to improve relations between the countries and maintained that Taiwan was part of China, a diplomatic sticking point. At the close of the journey, Nixon crowed, "This was the week that changed the world." (See TIME's 1972 Cover Story "Richard Nixon's Long March to Shanghai...