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Graduate School of Education student Cheng Zhu, an international student from Beijing studying human development and psychology, will take the helm of the council, which includes 47 representatives from all of the University’s graduate and professional schools...
...SENTENCED. CHENG CHUI-PING, 57, a.k.a. Sister Ping, leader of a Chinese-immigrant-smuggling ring who helped finance the 1993 voyage of the freighter Golden Venture, which ran aground off New York with 300 starving Chinese passengers aboard, 10 of whom died trying to swim to U.S. soil; to the maximum sentence of 35 years in prison, for money laundering, conspiracy, and trafficking in ransom proceeds; in New York City. Cheng, who reportedly arranged the transport of thousands of illegal immigrants from her base in New York's Chinatown, claimed she was an innocent victim terrorized by Chinese gangs...
...really were turning back the clock to 1950. But Maoist China is hardly what the current leaders are striving to replicate. "The new leadership is keen to promote this socialist banner because it recalls an era when there was no challenge to the Communist Party," says Joseph Cheng, a China-watcher at City University in Hong Kong. "With unrest rising all over China, they want a justification for their monopoly on political power...
...Says Cheng: "Even if the criticism comes from the left, it's still criticism, and the leadership will try to stop it at all costs." So even if the country isn't really reverting to socialism, there's at least one trait that Comrade Van Winkle will find familiar in this crop of Chinese leaders: a continuing aversion to dissent...
...company has already sold 1,300 sets of boots and bindings to a resort near Beijing and is working on contracts to sell 1,000 more. "The European and U.S. markets are not growing that fast, so we're really excited about the potential in China," says Catherine Cheng, marketing manager for Tecnica's Beijing-based China office. For now, the nation's novice skiers prefer to rent boots. But later, says Cheng, "they will buy their own, and we want to be there when they start doing that...