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...Xing’s weapon of resistance, he said yesterday, is his memory. Chinese documentary filmmaker and writer Xing spoke at a screening here yesterday of his film “A Chronicle of My Cultural Revolution,” which details personal childhood horrors he and his generation experienced during Mao Tse-Tung’s Cultural Revolution during the 1960s and 1970s. In an event jointly sponsored by Harvard’s Fairbank Center for East Asian Research and the New England China Seminar, Xing juxtaposed the brutality he witnessed with the history perpetuated by the Chinese government...

Author: By Laura G. Mirviss, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Film Revisits Chinese Revolution | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

...rankings] are there to help get you started.” Former Harvard College Dean Harry R. Lewis ’68 also took a circumspect view on the most recent rankings announcement. “Human beings are complex, and what’s best for one person won’t be best for another,” Lewis said in a written statement. “So I approve of transparency, but tend not to assign to much significance to one-dimensional rankings,” U.K. schools saw a widespread drop in rankings this year, with...

Author: By Paul C. Mathis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Tops ‘Times’ Rankings Again | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

...Youngest recorded person to enter the Kong’s second floor. Rumor has it she was 12. Some say she was just really short...

Author: By Kate E. Cetrulo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: How The Kong Became King | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

...solo cellist represents [Yun] as a person, and the orchestra represents the world that he lives in,” Koh said. “If you listen to the orchestra, there is a lot going on, and it’s just really frantic and chaotic, and I think that’s how he saw the world at the time...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Koh To Play in North Korea | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

...excited about this election,” said Clayton W. Brooks III ’10, one of the debate’s organizers. Jeffery Kwong ’08-’09, Brooks’s co-organizer and former Harvard Republican Club president said that his personal experience motivated him to help sponsor the event. “I’m a gay republican,” Kwong said. “The party is changing, and I want that perception to be there, that the Republican Party is slowly becoming more and more accepting...

Author: By Nayeli E. Rodriguez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: LGBT Party Representatives Advocate for Candidates | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

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