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...historians, there's a weird irony in Cambodia's decrepit infrastructure. In the 12th century, King Jayavarman VII built highways that had few equals on earth. They can be seen from satellite photographs (although from the ground, few traces are apparent), with the longest running some 220 kilometers northwest to Phimai, in modern-day Thailand...
...between undergraduates and the professional acting troupe is less than ideal, and the two compete for limited space. Lewis estimates in a letter to Allston planner Kathy Spiegleman that 80 to 90 percent of the building’s square footage is not available for undergraduate use. And the decrepit Hasty Pudding Theater building, purchased by the College in 2000, has awaited renovations for several years now—each year marked by a delay with a different excuse and currently stalled on fundraising...
Shared bathrooms. Damp floors. Dirty bedding. The complaints from the residents of the Lady MacLehose Holiday Village and other decrepit resort settlements in Hong Kong are the sorts of gripes you would expect from unhappy campers. This time, though, the more than 240 occupants of these remote settlements are the evacuated residents of Block E of Amoy Gardens, a crowded Hong Kong housing estate that has become the most virulent breeding ground yet for the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak. In barely a week more than 250 residents of Amoy Gardens contracted the potentially deadly virus?nearly half...
...would be one thing if the students challenged the content of any one of these e-mails. These were e-mails that articulated a diverse range of topics, from the decrepit state of public schools to the state of American prisons to kingdoms in Africa. Instead, the students questioned the very presence of these e-mails in their inbox...
...dark vision of China in The Crazed is that "of an old hag so decrepit and brainsick that she would devour her children to sustain herself." As Jin sees it, the Chinese are walled in on all sides: the intellectuals by a culture of falsehood, the students by tanks and troops, the peasants by their relentless poverty and everyone by paralyzing fear. In Waiting, Jin explored the emotional cost of enduring within those walls, but in The Crazed the pressure is simply too much. The dream of so many can be deferred no longer. Like a stroke, the only...