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...England this weekend. The farm is currently surrounded by the vast, temporary canvas city known as the Glastonbury Festival, a massive outdoor music and performing arts festival which the 72-year-old Eavis has hosted since 1970. Jay-Z, Amy Winehouse, Leonard Cohen, Kings of Leon, Jimmy Cliff, Manu Chao, Fatboy Slim and hundreds of other acts will perform on over a dozen stages starting Friday...
...assimilation of the Oroqen has been only somewhat successful, says Hing Chao, chairman of the Orochen Foundation, a Hong Kong--based charity that works to preserve the tribe's traditions. "They are assimilated, yes. But they are not integrated into the mainstream of society." To help the Oroqen cope, Beijing has launched initiatives including free housing, farming assistance and education. It's still possible that the Oroqen's future under China will be magnificent. But by then much of their heritage, like the game they once hunted, will have disappeared into the forests for good...
...Peters; if you knew they were, respectively, the secretaries of veterans affairs, energy and transportation, you've spent too much time in Washington. This diminished stature is no coincidence, since most modern Cabinet aides - especially in the ultra-centralized Bush administration - have relatively unimportant jobs. John Walters and Elaine Chao have served in the Cabinet ever since Bush moved into the White House more than seven years ago, but not only is it unlikely that you can identify them as the drug czar and labor secretary, it's virtually impossible that you can identify anything they've ever done...
...minute walk away is appealing. “There is a bus that stops by now, but it’s usually delayed, so it takes a long time to get to Davis square and the T stop is really inaccessible,” said freshman Edward Chao. The new stop would also mean more convenient access to downtown Boston. “It would be a lot easier to have a stop closer to campus because we wouldn’t have to take the red line all the way to Park Street,” said Lauren...
...believes he can skirt the issue by referring to the government in Taiwan by its official name, The Republic of China, based on a consensus the KMT says was reached with Beijing in 1992. (The DPP maintains that no agreement was ever made.) "If that issue is resolved," says Chao, "there's no limit to what can be agreed upon - direct links and tourist exchanges could happen immediately...