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...Ph.D. at Brandeis, and they have no desire to return to a paranoid, post-Tiananmen China. Instead, they send for their only child, 6-year-old Taotao, who has been living with his grandparents in Shandong province. As soon as he joins them in Massachusetts, the family decides to remain permanently in the U.S. (This setup is strongly autobiographical - the Liaoning-born Ha Jin was also a Chinese Ph.D. student at Brandeis at the time of Tiananmen, and also decided to stay...
...military has recruited thousands of Sunni insurgents to join the fight against jihadist groups like al-Qaeda, but the Shi'ite militias mainly responsible for last year's sectarian carnage remain largely untouched. In August, Muqtada al-Sadr, leader of the Mahdi Army, ordered it not to attack American troops. But U.S. commanders on the ground know there was no goodwill behind the decision. "It wasn't because Sadr saw Jesus--let's put it that way," says Major Christopher Coglianese, a staff officer in Baghdad. More likely, the Mahdi Army is waiting for the Americans to begin their drawdown...
Although Harvard has pledged to increase socioeconomic diversity, community college transfer students remain a small percentage of Harvard’s classes...
...where we were setting a big framework into a stage where we are refining those aspirations.”The Globe article noted that construction of the first piece of the University’s 350-acre Allston campus—a $1 billion science complex—will remain on schedule and begin next spring.Although Faust said she has not committed the University to a dramatic change in planning, she appears to be taking a more consultative approach to the expansion compared with her predecessor, Lawrence. H. Summers.Faust has emphasized hearing from stakeholders on both sides of the river...
...days after a parliamentary session to elect a new President was postponed for the eighth time, and is certain to aggravate tensions between rival pro- and anti-Syrian factions. The bombing, said Information Minister Ghazi Aridi, "is a message to the Lebanese that the situation in Lebanon will remain fragile and that security will remain a target...