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...China, a hawk and a dove were considered to be the same bird, seen in a different light. She retells the poignant story of the compiler of the 16,000-page Great Chinese-Japanese Classical Dictionary, who saw the proofs of 12 of his 13 volumes reduced to ash during the firebombing of Tokyo in 1945, yet started the epic all over again, even as he lost all sight in his right eye and most in his left. One Japanese word for the rainy season, baiu, can be written out to suggest the scent of "plum rain," Dalby informs...
Harvard found its way to the center of several debates during the meeting, including the perpetually recurring row over a white ash tree toppled by Harvard construction crews while building graduate housing at Cowperthwaite and Grant Streets last September...
...Councillors Craig A. Kelley and Henrietta Davis said that the Grant Street ash cast a pall on the claim that the city’s tree safety measures were working...
...Kennedy School of Government’s Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation is teaming up with IBM to reward what they deem as the world’s most creative approach to the business of government with a prize of $100,000 next fall. The “IBM Innovations Award in Transforming Government” program will identify government entities throughout the world endeavoring to improve the delivery of public services ranging from education and healthcare to national security. “We’re looking for the big, profound transformative innovations that are redefining...
...days preceding Ash Wednesday in Trinidad and Tobago, the 100,000 people who have taken to the streets make it a point to forget quite a few things. First among these is a sense of self-control, exchanging it for alcohol-infused abandon as they trek around the capital city of Port-of-Spain; second and most noticeably, they forget much of their clothing. But this is Carnival, and for Trinidadians the entire social year revolves around this event - which also attracts tens of thousands of foreigners, like myself, who themselves become Trini, if only for a short time...