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...surprising 37-6 victory. While a foot injury suffered during a scrimmage earlier this fall has ended Ho’s college football career, the economics concentrator remains active as a promoter of American football overseas. “I really want to start a league in China,” says Ho. He stars in an episode of a reality show called “NFL Blitz,” which is produced by NFL China and is scheduled to air the week before the Super Bowl...
Marco Chan ’11 was raised in Vancouver and currently lives in China. Even as a junior, he continues to maintain a close friendship with the host family assigned to him freshman year...
...International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors passed a resolution calling on Iran to suspend its nuclear activities. The Iranian regime responded to these overtures with a flat rejection and an aggressive promise to build an additional 10 enrichment plants. In response, the administration is reaching out to Russia, China, and our European allies to win support for tough new sanctions at the United Nations Security Council at the beginning of the new year...
...earliest record of standardized testing comes from China, where hopefuls for government jobs had to fill out examinations testing their knowledge of Confucian philosophy and poetry. In the Western world, examiners usually favored giving essays, a tradition stemming from the ancient Greeks' affinity for the Socratic method. But as the Industrial Revolution (and the progressive movement of the early 1800s that followed) took school-age kids out of the farms and factories and put them behind desks, standardized examinations emerged as an easy way to test large numbers of students quickly...
...groups, Google has agreed to limit its archiving to works that have been registered in the U.S., or come from the U.K., Australia, and Canada - English-speaking countries whose authors are present in American libraries. That agreement would nominally exclude books from countries like France and Germany, and from China, which has also objected to the digitization project on copyright grounds. Still, the accord must be approved by a U.S. federal court review in February - not a slam-dunk affair, given the American Justice Department's concerns that the agreement still breaks "fundamental copyright principles." (Read "Why Does Google Search...