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...around the world to China to teach two three-week English courses to disadvantaged high school students. The majority of the program’s teachers are Harvard undergraduates, and CCCEF hopes to fill 60 of the program’s 75 teaching slots from Harvard this year. The Asian students coming with HCAP will attend academic dinner discussions and cultural events while in Cambridge, and Harvard students will do the same in Asia, Einkauf said. Last year, the visiting students from Harvard met with the Beijing Olympic Committee and were given a private tour of the Taiwanese Parliament. During...
Bronshtein describes the T-shirts as depicting a “slanty-eyed Asian character,” but he neglects to mention that they show much more than that: they depict a bucktoothed, mentally-deficient-looking Asian character who wears his hair in a rattail-like queue. Although this hairstyle is no longer popular in Asia, this is exactly how 19th-century racist propaganda depicted the immigrants from Asia who comprised the “yellow peril.” Bronshtein neglects to mention these aspects of the T-shirt images. He also fails to place the image...
...fact that the president’s staff or confidantes—knowing that Dean Kirby was about to announce his resignation—decided to leak it ahead of time... and thus embarrass the dean” said Peter K. Bol, the Carswell professor of East Asian languages and civilizations. “I think that it was incomprehensible to deny a person the dignity of announcing his own resignation...
...hijack a commercial airplane and fly it into the tallest building on the West Coast - a Los Angeles skyscraper that intelligence analysts later determined was the Library Tower, now named the U.S. Bank Tower. Later in the day, counter-terrorism czar Frances Fragos Townsend told reporters that two South Asian and two Southeast Asian countries had helped arrest all four cell leaders planning the attack, which was designed as a follow up to 9/11 and originally revealed in 2003. Townsend said all four cell leaders are still in custody, although she wouldn?t specify where...