Chinese immigrants began arriving in Cuba in the middle of the 19th century and, like other immigrants to the largest island of the Antilles, they mixed in with Cuban culture while maintaining much of their own. Growing up in Little Havana, one of our favorite places to eat was at a Cuban-Chinese restaurant on Calle
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As we enter a new year and chase out the tens of thousands Chinese spies inhabiting the halls (and labs) of Ivy and Kudzu across the nation, it may be a good time to take stock of why even colleges and universities exist.
They were established in the Middle Ages places like Oxford, Cambridge, Paris, Salamanca, Bologna to foster Christianity, plain and simple. Universities evolved as did Western civilization over the next thousand years so today they reflect two basic areas: the best in the traditional liberal arts curriculum and the scientific and technological cutting edges of the times. The University of Alabama is no exception.