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Klausner said that he met with Schreiber only in the context of another project he directed, the Harvard Institute of Chemistry and Cellular Biology...
...Chinese students viewing the skit in the context of the long history of antagonism between Japan and China believed so. The following day, Oct. 30, word of the performance had spread, and many of the campus' 18,000 students concluded the Japanese had been out to humiliate China. Posters appeared on dormitory walls. "Protect our nation, throw out the attackers," read one. Rumors that the Japanese had worn pig's heads and had racist insults written on their costumes circulated quickly via mobile-phone text messages and Internet bulletin boards. More than a thousand angry students massed outside the foreign...
...under-representation of women on the Law Review is a concern, but I’m not inclined to think an affirmative action plan is the answer. I think that in this context the costs of affirmative action would outweigh the benefits of putting another handful of women on the Review,” Kagan wrote in a statement. “I think we should focus instead on discovering the reasons for gender disparities within law schools generally; that would be a very significant contribution to legal education...
...with no health insurance,” and “white Southern working people voting Republican for 30 years [who’ve] got nothing to show for it,” Al Sharpton and John Edwards pressed the issue long enough to completely exaggerate an out-of-context quote and keep Dean on the defensive...
...This is a relatively new thing, this office that’s in charge of everything,” Johnson said. “I think we need to consider it in context and what the situation was last year before we had the Office...