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Elizabeth J. Perry, a Chinese politics specialist, was named director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute last week. Perry begins her new role July 1. She succeeds Harvard-Yenching Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy Tu Weiming, who has served as the Director since 1996. “I hope to build upon the strong foundation laid by Professor Tu to broaden further the activities of the Institute, both geographically and programmatically,” Perry, the Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, said in a press release. “She is an internationally recognized specialist on Asia...
DEFINITION diff-er-en-tial tu-i-tion n. A per-semester premium that more public universities are charging students who want to major in lucrative fields like business and engineering...
...tales has become the default mode of telling them. 2005's Hoodwinked! reimagined Little Red Riding Hood as a crime Rashomon, while this year's Happily N'Ever After sent up Cinderella. Broadway smash Wicked posits that the Wicked Witch of the West was misunderstood. This fall Disney (et tu, Mickey?) releases Enchanted, in which a princess (Amy Adams) is magically banished by an evil queen to modern New York City, where she must fend for herself, parodying her princess foremothers as she goes. (Snow White's Whistle While You Work scene is re-enacted with vermin and roaches...
...whom the world would know as Pax Thien Jolie was brought to the Tam Binh orphanage when he was one month old after being abandoned by his mother at Tu Du obstretics hospital in Ho Chi Minh City. "His mother gave birth and left immediately," said Nguyen Van Trung, director of orphanage. Hospital authorities put up notices and tried to search for the mother for 30 days but no one showed up. So he was placed in the orphanage, which was provided with a police report of attempts to find his birth parents, as is standard practice in Vietnam...
...your former Y Tu Mama Tambien co-star Diego Luna recently started a traveling documentary-film festival in Mexico. Why documentaries...