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...Cheek about creating a show that would center on his life at Princeton when he enrolled as a freshman. And to top it all off, in April, Cheek was declared a member of “The TIME 100,” TIME’s list of the world??s 100 most influential people.But Cheek’s most important project was yet to come.At the recent summit of the Clinton Global Initiative in Washington, D.C., Cheek announced that he would be putting together a different kind of organization to promote Darfur awareness. Preliminarily titled...
...visa requires proof of graduation from college and a sponsoring U.S. employer, and allows the individual to work in the United States for up to six years. Thousands of international students in the U.S. are turned down every year, as Congress effectively shuts the door on many of the world??s brightest young minds, eager to contribute to the U.S. economy by living and working high-skill jobs in the nation in which they were educated.Graduation dates at many colleges in the U.S. make attaining an H-1B especially difficult, because by the time students can provide proof...
...designers continue to include fur in their collections, caring people will speak out. Animals raised for their fur spend their entire lives confined to tiny, filthy cages, surrounded by their own waste, before being poisoned, gassed, strangled, or electrocuted. Investigations into the fur trade in China—the world??s largest supplier of fur—found fur farmers beating animals with metal rods, skinning them alive and even slaughtering dogs, and cats for their pelts. Furthermore, animals are treated exactly the same miserable way whether their skins are eventually used “sparingly?...
Over the course of a long career, Barenboim has both played with and conducted the world??s premier orchestras, most recently the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, which he left last July after a 15-year tenure...
Though soft-spoken, Koh, a biochemical sciences concentrator in Cabot House, exudes passion and enthusiasm when he talks about Yun, a personal hero for the cellist. “Yun said, ‘You can express the world??s pain through music,’ which I believe in,” says Koh. Though born in South Korea, Koh did not encounter the music of Yun until his high school years in Berlin. It was after watching a documentary on Yun that Koh decided to champion the music of his fellow countryman...