Archive: May 2008

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Students watched, transfixed, as the daring climber made his way up the treacherous vines, clinging desperately to the gravelly side of the academic building, tiny fists clenched in determination. Who was this rogue adventurer, so bravely risking life and limb? Where did he come from, and why was this his chosen task? So many questions […]

Correction: May 5Gretchen Snedeker, a graduate student at the Eastman School of Music, died in a automobile collision in Oneida, N.Y. last Thursday when another car entered her lane when she was on her way to teach at Colgate University. Snedeker was an adjunct professor at Colgate.Snedeker had received a Bachelor of Music degree in […]

Dominant public opinion in western countries has held that the fierce anti-China protests surrounding the Olympic torch relay are deserved and potentially effective ways to improve China's human rights situation. Political leaders have announced boycotts of the Olympic opening ceremonies. In my view, many of these protests have been unnecessarily inflammatory. Attempts to force political […]