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...until 2007, there existed no standard method of screening the language skills of foreign TFs. Departments used their own methods of preparing section leaders, ranging from courses that count for credit to a simple day-long workshop at the Bok Center, according to Assistant Dean of the College Logan S. McCarty...
...reached an unusual pitch for a position that until recent years was typically filled quickly and without controversy. The vitriol flowed in part because of the candidate herself, with her pro-choice positions and national-security stances. But the other reason was the long shadow that hangs to this day over the office known as the OLC. That shadow is torture...
...Sunday, send this message to people you trust that tomorrow a convoy of 60 trucks full of cartel hitmen from the Michoacan Family together with members of the Gulf Cartel are coming to take the city and take everyone out alive or dead!" Schools and shops closed that day...
...good day, it takes 12 hours by bus to get to Yushu from the provincial capital, Xining, which is itself about a 1,000-mile drive from the national capital of Beijing. As you climb south and west across the Qinghai-Tibet plateau, urban sprawl cedes to empty steppe. Just north of Tibet, the road opens into a small town tucked in a river valley. Its main street is lined with vendors selling yak butter and tea; its low, brown hills are lined with rows of brightly colored courtyard homes. Those homes - and the town - now lie in ruin...
There is another factor at work here. Yushu sits at what was the edge of the old Chinese empire, and to this day its predominant population is not Han, the ethnic group that rules the new China, but Tibetan. Indeed, the name Yushu, or "Jade Tree," is not what the locals use, beautiful as it is. Yushu is Mandarin, the language of the bureaucrats of Beijing. The town uses Jyekundo, which is Tibetan - the language of the exiled Dalai Lama, a bête noire of the Chinese government. Dominating a large square in Yushu was a spectacular statue...