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...bodyguarding outfits, and most of them register officially as investigators or providers of other business services. The homepage of the Shanghai-based Shuaika Commercial Consultation Co. shows smiling Westerners in a gleaming boardroom. But click a button that reads "élite bodyguards" and the screen fills with photos of bare-chested men flexing their pecs. Still, the majority of Chinese bodyguards are freelancers; typically ex-soldiers, ex-police or graduates of martial-arts academies, they find work through friends or former teachers. Ding Zhongmin, a kickboxing expert who runs the Yingcai Bodyguard Training Center in Nanjing, says he schools...
...chirping birds and glorious grass) and accentuate the important educational opportunity available from living in a city like Cambridge. After all, I’d rather wake up to the sound of a blaring horn and be exposed to the deepest problems of society—which are laid bare for all to see in Cambridge—than be serenaded by chickadees in a tranquil setting where the only people I run into are transplanted suburbanites who close their eyes to the problems of the ghetto on their way to a job on the Upper West Side...
Perched on a bare stage with a lone microphone, Gordon sprinkles his arguments with epigrams and political puns—a skill he says he picked up while earning his master’s degree in public policy from the Kennedy School of Government in the early...
...players caused the quartet to come off as sloppy and under-rehearsed. Tellingly, the group’s contrasting fashion styles made it difficult to glean a coherent image from the band. While Evan began the show dressed like a hippie, and stripped down to his bare chest at the show, the bassist dressed like a hardcore punk. “When we met him,” says Anthony, “he didn’t have a mohawk, it was pretty benign hair. But he gave us some weird punk credibility that we wouldn?...
...Box” is the segment that is both most affecting and hardest to describe. The story, in its bare outline, is that a novelist accidentally killed her twin sister in a horrific way when they were young circus performers. She is plagued by recurring dreams in which she is buried alive in the same small box in which her sister died. Elements of her dream spill over into her life, and her sister starts appearing to her—or is just a manifestation of a guilty conscience...