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A new era has dawned in Leverett House dining hall. A screen now covers the infamous multicolored mural on the House’s pristine walls. Its presence is ominous, hinting at the mural’s upcoming removal. The old painting will soon be replaced with a sweeping landscape...

Author: By Li S. Zhou | Title: A Dining Room With a (New) View | 9/23/2009 | See Source »

To keep that from happening, Karzai needs to show results--fast. Afghans say he must dismiss corrupt officials, improve law and order and use foreign aid money to build long-promised roads, dams, bridges and schools. This would win back many Afghans and stall the Taliban's advance. But it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spotlight: Afghanistan's Elections | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

To keep that from happening again, Karzai will need to show results - and fast. For starters, Afghans say he must dismiss corrupt officials, enforce law and order, and use foreign-aid money to build the roads, dams, bridges and schools that he and the international community have long promised but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the U.S. Still Work with Afghanistan's Karzai? | 9/8/2009 | See Source »

The people form a sea around you. The gates open like dams, and passengers stream through the bottleneck and swarm around the trains, oozing into the cabins.

Author: By Maria Y. Xia | Title: Metaphors | 8/11/2009 | See Source »

And these gates—how like the Chinese examination system. It is bigger and badder than the SAT, because Chinese colleges look at nothing else but this single test when accepting students. Gao kao—a phrase feared among high school seniors—represents a one-time...

Author: By Maria Y. Xia | Title: Metaphors | 8/11/2009 | See Source »

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