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...including some members of the Asian-American community—toward AAWA’s work was less than supportive. “One of the arguments we got was, ‘We’ve had the party for the last fourteen years, and nobody had a problem then,’ and I think that sentiment is part of the problem,” Ho says. “The impression is that past silence means it’s okay.” Harvard’s Asian-American community in general, to the dismay...
...homage to their common ancestor, the GNP’s latest project might contribute to greater understanding of the tensions between them.“[The route] can be a catalyst for intercultural interaction on a large scale, so that people can understand the roots of the problem as well as the roots of civilization itself,” says Ury. He also identifies the path as a potential “magnet for tourism and economic development.”After a year spent building support for the project among everyone from economists to religious authorities, Ury has focused...
...been the cause of those frustrations. The aspiring media mogul says she knows how to command respect both from her peers at school and her new peers in the business world.“I don’t think it’s a problem,” Matthews says. “I know what I’m doing.”She pauses, then corrects herself: “Well, I don’t. I just know what I want.”What she wants includes a core staff made up of people Matthews?...
...describing the victory, the various factions of the Democratic Party sound as if they all witnessed a different election. The Democratic Leadership Council, a group of moderates in the party, declared the victory "a testament to the centrist problem-solving reputation of Democrats outside the cauldron of Beltway partisan warfare...
Arab countries have some of the world's fastest-growing rates of HIV infection, but their governments and religious authorities have been slow to address the problem. That was the message last week from a Cairo conference organized by the Arab League and the U.N. Development Program, which drew together more than 300 leading religious figures from 20 Arab countries, and was jointly led by Sheikh Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Mosque - which is influential throughout the Sunni Muslim world - and Pope Shenouda III, head of the Coptic Orthodox Church and President of the Middle East...