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Piles of red brick clutter the roadsides. Stacks of concrete drainage pipes fill parking lots. Newly resurfaced roads snake past rows of temporary housing, while stores do a brisk trade in paint and window frames. Like countless places in China, this corner of central Sichuan province is undergoing a building boom. But this is no typical growth story. When I was here six months ago, bodies jutted from the pancaked floors of collapsed buildings and lined rubble-strewn streets. Tens of thousands of homeless crowded into sports stadiums, and millions more slept in tents. The highway was riven with cracks...
Piles of red bricks clutter the roadsides. Stacks of concrete drainage pipes fill parking lots, while stores do a brisk trade in paint and window frames. Like countless other places in China, this corner of central Sichuan province is undergoing a building boom. But this is no typical growth story. When I was here six months ago, bodies jutted from the pancaked floors of collapsed buildings and lined rubble-strewn streets. Tens of thousands of homeless crowded into sports stadiums, and millions more slept in tents. The surface of the Zipingba Reservoir was covered with a brackish film from...
...holding penalty. Harvard missed its chances to convert, but the Crimson onslaught wore the Bears down, allowing Harvard to even the score during another power play, 2-2. After trading passes with sophomore Matt McCollem, Fraser released the puck to McCafferty, who launched a shot into the top right corner of the net for the score. Forty-one seconds into the third period, the Crimson took a 3-2 lead, as Moore finished off a shot by junior Ian Tallett. But Brown’s power play goal left the squads at a 3-3 standstill, and both sides were...
...Activists will need to lure some opponents into their corner in order to advance their cause. In light of this, the gay rights movement should focus on building acceptance, rather than falling back on divisive politics. They should seek to demonstrate that they are reasonable, that their cause is reasonable, and that they hope to achieve it through popular democratic processes...
...that intense stuff.” It promptly switches back to mellow. As one of the founders of Project East, he knows what this event requires. On the one hand, he’s involved in most of the activities taking place in the JCR, walking from corner to corner to check on shoes or jackets, occasionally stopping to tell a model, “That looks really good on you.” But on the other hand, Parent’s job is also keeping people in line. “This is serious shit...