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...Some 300 meters down the street is the Wenzhou Hotel, bankrolled by entrepreneurs from that famously commercial city on China's coast. In the karaoke lounge, 27-year-old businessman Wang Jianliang is giving a lengthy diatribe condemning the splittists. They are "just a small minority" he says, dismissively. Wang, who says he has been in Khotan for five years, adds that residents should be grateful for the economic development of recent years. "When I came out here it was nothing. Now it's a big city." He turns to belt out a ballad in his native Fujian dialect...
...world is, that there is such a thing as injustice, and these qualities are offered up without any veiling or disguise,” he said. Kushner criticized the playwright Tom Stoppard for the implicit message of his popular play sequence, “The Coast of Utopia,” and his recent play “Rock ‘n’ Roll.” In Stoppard’s plays, he said, there is “a politics of anti-politics—a great rejection of the political and the possibility of transformation...
...Crimson’s co-ed team defeated the Coast Guard Academy in a sail-off to take the Lynne Marchiando Trophy in brisk wind on Sunday...
After a Saturday on which a young Harvard squad struggled, falling into the second group for Sunday’s finals, the Crimson finished strong, taking down the Coast Guard with ease to win the lower division of the tournament...
Last night decorated NASA astronaut Daniel C. Burbank provided a rare glimpse into life in space. The Coast Guard captain spoke about the space program and showed photos and videos of mankind’s most distinguished zero-gravity job, in a talk held by the Harvard College Aviation Club and the Paul Revere Battalion of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC). “I still have to pinch myself in the morning. I can’t believe all I’ve done is real,” Burbank said. Captain David M. Gowel...