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...Summers] recognized when high-profile visitors came to Harvard that it does take quite a bit of time and attention to do these things thoughtfully and carefully,” she said, citing Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s December appearance at the Business School. “The political circumstances need to be taken care...
Civil disobedience can be an effective way to promote a just cause or just an unecessary nuisance. Either way, it usually gets punished. Harvard’s latest case—that of Meghan C. Howard ’04, who interrupted Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s Dec. 11 speech at Harvard Business School—did promote a just cause. But since Howard faced the Ad Board yesterday, it seems she will still have to pay the price for her outcry...
Much has been made of the fact that Meghan C. Howard ’04 interrupted Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao during his speech last month at Harvard Business School. After Wen mentioned the love he had for “[his] people,” Howard unfurled a Tibetan flag and declared, “Tibet belongs to the Tibetan people! We will never stop fighting!” She was escorted out by police and will face the Ad Board tomorrow...
...following Wen’s speech, not one of the three questioners raised the subject of Yang’s incarceration. (I can only hope President Summers did privately.) Nor, for that matter, did a single one press Wen on any Chinese human-rights violations at all. It was left to Howard to remind us, if only fleetingly, that China is not a normal state, and its government is not necessarily worthy of our deference...
...Wen must have hoped Tibet would not come up at Harvard. He did not mention it in his talk, and none of the questions asked touched on Tibet or human rights. But when there is horrible pain and suffering in the world, it is our duty to shove that again and again before the eyes of those who could help, but instead ignore. And so I brought a Tibetan flag with me—a symbol that is banned in China, just to remind Wen that it exists, that it represents the history and hopes of 6 million people inside...