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...Partly to counter this problem, Deng Yijian, deputy director of the center, recently announced the launch of an art-education project including lectures on Western classical music. The theater has also promised to offer more affordable tickets for coming performances. "The National Grand Theater is not an exclusive club for the prestigious," says Deng, "but a public cultural infrastructure for everyone." It wasn't for everyone during opening week. But if Deng is right, "the egg" just needs more time to hatch...
...summit" to tackle the growing problem of career-shortening brain injuries suffered on the football field. Older retired players, broken and broke, clamored for better disability benefits, portraying the league, its rich young players and their union as greedy. Bad player behavior--Adam (Pacman) Jones' involvement in a strip-club shooting, Vick's ties to a dogfighting ring--forced commissioner Roger Goodell to enforce unprecedented penalties for off-field incidents. Then there were tragedies: Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams was murdered early New Year's Day, 2007; Washington's Sean Taylor was slain in November...
...feel less comfortable participating in BGLTSA events. Although the BGLTSA formally includes straight people and always welcomes them—it isn’t necessarily easy for those individuals to feel comfortable getting involved. Straight people may feel intimidated taking part in the other facets of the club, such as its political endeavors, if they view the BGLTSA strictly as a social space for queer students.But members of the BGLTSA have sensed that there are other issues with the organization that inhibit its effectiveness as a political player. In an interview, former Political Chair Katherine E. Smith...
...hitting me. I have watched him on television. People are putting the bait in front of him. He doesn't take it. Same thing with McCain. He is thrown the bait all the time. He rises above it. I just felt like the attacks we were getting, both by Club for Growth and by Romney, the mail pieces, and then the last straw for me was seeing the ads that he ran on McCain. I saw them [Friday]. And I just said, 'You know, this is just not right.' He's not telling us why he should be President...
Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) officers approached Wu, 20, at about 12:30 a.m. on Dec. 16 when Wu allegedly yelled and threw a snowball at a person outside the Faculty Club, the site of the Tri-House winter formal...