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...Bi is a 32-year-old English teacher in a small town not far from Shanghai on China's eastern coast. He could have taken Russian in college but chose English because "there is no one to talk to in Russian and no one interested in learning it." Bi speaks English so well that only a careful listener might guess that it is his second language. He pays particular attention to his consonants, and the effect is riveting. It seems that everything he says has been carefully weighed and thought...
...strapping six-footer, Bi "got into the weight-lifting craze about two years ago, when it was big." He still pumps iron each morning before breakfast, which he takes at a local restaurant with four colleagues. Eating out is actually cheaper than cooking at home for Bi, since coal is very expensive. Besides, Bi is saving for new eyeglasses. He hates his thick lenses and believes he would not need them if he had grown up in the West. "Until about five years ago, we didn't have electricity," he says. "I read by candlelight till then. My eyes...
...Yorker. And Robert Brustein, who teaches some undergraduate drama courses, is the founder and director of the American Repertory Theater, one of the nation's most successful regional theatres. Brustein, who came to Harvard from the Yale Repertory Theater, is also a noted drama critic and writes a bi-weekly theater column for The New Republic...
...Some people won't buy books there, others spend hours looking at the books and talking to the employees. It's true, they make no pretense of their politics and if you don't see them in the store, you might see them in the Square selling the bi-weekly Workers' Vanguard...
During the strike, the bi-weekly tabloid Old Mole began distributing daily "strike specials" every morning at 6 a.m. The special issues provided protesters with the day's schedule of events--or "struggles," as the Mole termed them--and served as a forum for discussing the divisive issues within the student movement...