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Harvard is a leader among American institutions of higher education in so many other ways. Why could President Lawrence H. Summers and the administration not wipe the omnipresent stoic expression off of Harvard’s face and show some desperately needed sensitivity? Why could they not demonstrate that we are human too, that we appreciate the lives we have, that we do care about what happened and that it did affect us deeply...
...Zheng He's trials began early. He was born in 1371, during the first years of the Ming dynasty, to an Islamic family in what is now the western province of Yunnan. (His name at birth was Ma He.) When the Ming armies moved into the region to wipe out the last vestiges of Mongol influence, 11-year-old Ma gained the attention of a conquering general. He was taken back to Nanjing, where he became a page to a young prince, known as Zhu Di. He was castrated and destined for a life serving with other eunuchs...
...have all but dried up. Hurt badly by Korea's high cost of labor and the economic slump, he is thinking about moving to China. Hundreds of his compatriots have already gone, and big companies in Taiwan, Malaysia and Thailand are doing the same. "China has the potential to wipe Southeast Asia off the map as a manufacturing base," says Michael Enright, a business professor at Hong Kong University. "These nations are going to have to find new sources of growth...
...agree on one thing: to lurch out of its coma, Japan needs to tackle its irretrievable bank loans. Estimates vary wildly on just how much is at stake: of $3.8 trillion in total loans, banks may have to kiss goodbye to anything from $250 billion to $1.2 trillion. "To wipe out the debt," Koizumi said recently, "we must be firm...
...took years of great play to erase the memory of a young ANDRE AGASSI, with his Melissa Etheridge-style mullet, staring into a commercial camera and saying, "Image is everything." Agassi may not have enough time left in his career to wipe out the image of his semifinal exit from Wimbledon. Tied 6-6 in the fifth set against Patrick Rafter, Agassi hit a ball that was called out. He uttered an obscenity--a code violation that carries a $2,000 fine--which a lineswoman heard and reported to the umpire. Agassi promptly lost the match, but he wasn...