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According to the College Alumni Programs Web site, Class Reports "are a longstanding Harvard tradition, dating back at least to the mid-1800s. They serve as historical chronicles of classes and encourage alumni to reconnect with each other and the College through the sharing of current contact information, family news, and in-depth life stories...
...earlier version of the Apr. 14 news article "Graduate Student Teaching Fellows Lost in Translation" incorrectly suggested that there is a total of 230 international students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In fact, the 230 figure refers to the approximate number of incoming international students each year...
...estimated 384 million Internet users, more than the total population of the U.S. That size, combined with the growing popularity of interactive applications that allow users to generate their own content, has placed great strain on censors' ability to restrict the flow of sensitive information. Often news happens and discussion spreads widely before censors have a chance to decide how to manage the subject. "In this war, the censor is obviously not winning," says Xiao Qiang, the director of the China Internet Project at the University of California, Berkeley. "In the interactive space, users are winning by numbers...
...phenomenon is happening in much larger numbers on Twitter, where thousands of Chinese users post information about current events in China despite the site's being blocked by authorities. When the activist lawyer Gao Zhisheng reappeared in March after disappearing in police custody more than a year ago, the news was first revealed on Twitter and then spread to the mainstream press. Ai Weiwei, a Chinese artist who has organized an investigation into the deaths of children whose schools collapsed in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, has been active on Twitter over the past year; he now has 33,000 followers...
Because mainland users have to climb the Great Firewall to access Twitter, they generally share an interest in issues of free speech, says Xiao. They discuss news in the unfiltered medium of Twitter and then repost information on mainland blogs and Twitter-like microblogging services. "It is not a fluke," he says. "It's a pattern. The Chinese censors look at this space with great focus and are trying to figure out what to do with...