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...President Ma Ying-jeou, Morakot has also become a political storm. The same day that national television aired footage of mourners at the village of Siaolin, where some 400 people are thought to be buried by mudslides, Ma appeared on the evening news wearing a cheerful blue-and-white baseball cap and polo shirt at Taiwan's World Youth Baseball Championship. It was not the President's only faux pas. Earlier that week, Ma told reporters that residents living in Morakot's path were not "well prepared," pinning the slow evacuation on the victims and showing an aloofness that stood...
Sister collective Generation Precarious has sent dozens of white-masked youths into the shops and offices of some of France's best known companies to denounce firms who use free student interns instead of hiring more workers. Bayou says he first got the idea of founding the association after seeing a cascade of responses to a single Internet forum post lamenting such abuse. Though Generation Precarious only has 10 full-time members, its demonstrations, advertised over e-mail and via social media sites, attract hundreds. Two years of protests pushed the government to decree that companies must pay interns...
...gray curls - and his sentences - clipped. He was "very pleased and flattered" by his CBE and extols a recent stint teaching at Yale as "very comfy." But his spot in the cultural establishment is proof that his revolution succeeded. He's about to start on the screenplay of The White Tiger, the Booker Prize winning novel by Indian author (and occasional TIME contributor) Aravind Adiga. That a story about a poor Indian hustling his way in Bangalore sold millions of copies all over the world, notes Kureishi, shows that post-colonial fiction has reinvigorated the novel. (See Aravind Adiga...
...Faust charged an independent, six-member committee with scrutinizing the diversity training and recruitment efforts of the Harvard police force. In the weeks before the announcement, black student and faculty leaders had been pushing for the University to address what they viewed as racial profiling by a predominantly white campus police department. They pointed to the August incident—in which a black high school student was approached by University police while trying to remove the lock from his bike—as well as two other incidents in recent years. The policy changes are designed...
...women’s roles in 16th- and 17th-century Japan, a period after the Tale of Genji was produced when dominant scholarship holds that women were not as influential as they had been in the 15th century. By studying paintings called Hakubyo—literally “white lines,” for the negative space around the ink of the illustrations—McCormick said she is “trying to show that that is not the case and that women had continued to compose narratives and poetry.” Last year, when Harvard?...