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...they sip Starbucks lattes or line up at the U.S. embassy for student visas, theybridle at what they view as an attempt by the rest of the world to suppress a budding superpower. "America wants to keep China down," Kang says. "We should all be friends. But America must accept China as a friend on an equal footing." --By Hannah Beech/Beijing...
...dragon gently flexed its scaly muscles but because others prodded it with a sharp stick. When China began to open up to the world 150 years ago, it did so because gunships of the British Royal Navy, working in the service of opium smugglers, forced the imperial government to accept foreign trade. As China sees its history, the country was subjected to foreign humiliation for the next century, its territory invaded and dismembered, its people raped and massacred. Along with the foreign interventions came homegrown catastrophes: rebellions, revolutions, civil wars, famine and unspeakable cruelty. Luan, the Chinese word for chaos...
...What's it like to discover your ancestor was a slave trader?" he writes. "The disgust is overpowering. You cannot stop thinking about the men and women he sold on to the ships. And whether the responsibility for his actions runs through your blood." Eventually, Eshun comes to accept his past - and the contradictions he has struggled with in both England and Ghana. He draws invisible circles on a table for emphasis. "You realize that things don't have to have a kind of linear progression, things don't have to have a happy ending, they can just have...
Funding for the second year of the program, which officially began April 1, was also delayed until last week. The University is supposed to “draw down,” or accept a portion of the PEPFAR money, at least once every quarter—or risk defaulting and losing the grant, according to Program Director for Nigeria and SPH Adjunct Professor of Infectious Disease Robert Murphy...
Reached in Nigeria last Friday, Murphy said that there was a danger that Harvard would lose the grant if it did not draw down soon. Murphy said Friday that the University had yet to accept the funding...