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...opened Shanghai to foreign investors during his three years as mayor, starting a boom that lasts to this day, and displayed his no-nonsense approach to the business of doing business. According to Gareth Chang, who was head of a McDonnell Douglas joint venture in Shanghai, Zhu cut official banquets from 12 dishes to four because "first of all, most of us couldn't eat that much, and second, he thought the longer meals were a waste of time." In 1991, Zhu was recalled to Beijing, where he became Vice Premier and successfully curbed China's rampant inflation. Last year...
...Even Chang, a recent immigrant from northern China and the most proficient English speaker in the class, struggled to pronounce the word, "freeze." For a chef in a local Chinese restaurant, mastery of this word might make or break his culinary presentation and ensure employment success...
...suicide of Chang H. Jo '00 before spring break is very painful and the impulse to blame Harvard's indifferent support network is strong. This institutional critique, however, masks the deeper attitudinal problem that isolates suicides as fringe events committed by disturbed persons. By refusing to acknowledge just how ordinary suicides and their victims are, we--administrators and students--make their occurrence more likely...
...Chang's death will spur the University Health Services (UHS) and the House to organize counseling sessions and put more mental health professionals on call over the next few weeks. That is fine, except that the availability of mental health services will flag in proportion to the publicity surrounding the suicide so that when student need help months later, they often cannot...
...Chang kill himself? We will probably never know. But what we do know is that we're not perfect. Beneath our tough veneer, we are frail. We are, after all, ordinary people and these are ordinary times...