Word: chira
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...Beijing bureau of the New York Times; in Shanghai. The Times reported that Zhao's family received a notice on September 21 from the Beijing State Security Bureau stating he was "in criminal detention under suspicion of illegally providing state secrets to foreigners." New York Times foreign editor Susan Chira said, "We can state categorically that Mr. Zhao has not provided any state secrets to our newspaper...
...summer after their junior years, Alter and Whitaker lived together with other Crimson editors—Susan D. Chira ’80 and Robert E. Grady ’79—in a house in Washington D.C., described by Christopher Buckley in Esquire as the “Washington bureau of The Harvard Crimson...
...Chira was working as an intern on Capitol Hill, Grady as a speechwriter, Whitaker as a reporter for Newsweek, and Alter as a speechwriter for Jimmy Carter...
...have to understand that Yao Ming means a lot to the Asian-American community even if he’s not really Asian-American,” says Harvard sophomore Dennis Chira, a Celtics fan who went with the CSA group. “He’s what I and many others hope will bring a wrecking ball to the ignorant insulting age-old stereotype that Asians are unathletic...
...Chira points out, these hopes are widely shared by the Chinese-American student population, who made their feelings known loudly at the FleetCenter, cheering every time Yao touched the ball and shaking the arena the two times Yao scored. Race in athletics is always a touchy subject, and the recent furor over Title IX and affirmative action demonstrate that colleges are the staging arenas for pitched battles over diversity...