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...involved a screening of the documentary of that same name followed by a discussion led by Michael Baran, who teaches Expos 20: “Race in the Americas.” The event was the brainchild of Jessica M. Ch’ng ’12, who saw the documentary in Baran’s course last fall. “I wanted to encourage people to examine popular culture more critically and to encourage dialogue about race and gender,” Ch’ng said. The documentary incorporated scenes from Disney classics like...
...Kagan says.BEIRUT ON THE CHARLESThe absence of community cohesion among the student body during the 1980s and early 1990s may have trickled down from the spirited and sometimes vitriolic debates held during classes, as professors from both ends of the political spectrum flaunted their ideological differences.While many students saw the heated discussions as “amusing” incidents, others felt that they created unnecessary tension and divisiveness outside the classroom. Students who held unpopular views sometimes found themselves the target of personal attacks.“Students were hissing at unpopular political views and really hot political issues...
...take us a good portion of that time to look at all of the files that we have to examine, until we get our hands around what Guantánamo is, and also what Guantánamo was," he said. As for torture, the Attorney General said he saw none of it. "I did not witness any mistreatment of prisoners," he told journalists. "What I saw was a very conscious attempt by these guards to conduct themselves in an appropriate...
...Except, that is, in China. Some economists and investors have turned mildly bullish on the Chinese economy. A February survey conducted by Merrill Lynch saw the number of fund managers who believed China's growth would be lower in the next 12 months shrink drastically. Jing Ulrich, chairman of China securities at JPMorgan in Hong Kong, noted after client meetings that "attitudes toward China's efforts to counter the economic slump seem to have turned more positive." The happy mood also showed up in Chinese stocks. By mid-February, the Shanghai stock market had surged more than 30% since...
...Trading on Zimbabwe's volatile stock market made Wall Street's dubious derivatives look like Treasury bills. With an economy locked out of the global financial system, daring foreign hedge funds and institutional investors saw this obscure market - much like emerging investment funds in wine and fine art - as an opportunity to diversify, or seek "exotic beta," in finance parlance. Though real returns may occasionally hit the high double digits, says Shumba, investing here can seem like playing Russian roulette: the exchange is highly fickle and illiquid, with a total market capitalization that has fluctuated tenfold in the past year...