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...said event organizer Shoba Ramanadhan, a Fulbright alum and PhD student at the Harvard School of Public Health. The Fulbright program supports both American students studying and researching abroad, as well foreigners studying or researching in the U.S. The program, named after former Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright, is funded by the State Department. Carlos Olimpo Mendivil Anaya, a Colombian, said that the Fulbright program would allow him to learn technical skills that he would use for the benefit of his home country. “I am very excited about coming back and [making] some contribution to the country...
...discussion about the role of different East Asian groups on campus. Potential for more collaboration among East Asian student organizations at Harvard was a main focus. “The KA board has been actively discussing how other organizations on campus view us as exclusive,” said William Cho ’08, the organization’s educational/political chair. “We’re self-conscious of that fact, but there’s a lack of action taken.” Cho proposed the idea of an e-mail list for multiple cultural organization...
While the Harvard College admissions office does not keep statistics of students’ status as recent immigrants, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said that variation in black students’ cultural backgrounds at the College is apparent...
...Committee chairman John Conyers, Jr., and Linda Sanchez, chairwoman of the Judiciary subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, co-signed letters today to White House Counsel Fred Fielding and former White House Counsel Harriet Miers, requesting that both Miers and current deputy White House counsel William Kelly submit to interviews with the committee concerning the fired U.S. attorneys. The letters also ask that the White House supply comprehensive documentation of all discussions and communications dealing with the matter...
...easy for the rest of us. Saying no can be awkward, guilt inducing, nerve racking, embarrassing, even risky to friendship and career. "No may be the most powerful word in the language, but it's also potentially the most destructive, which is why it's hard to say," says William Ury, director of the Global Negotiation Project at Harvard University, who addresses that struggle in his new book, The Power of a Positive No: How to Say No and Still Get to Yes. Ury, a professional negotiator whose work has taken him to such conflict-ridden locales as Chechnya, Israel...