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...ceremony, and a brand-new airport terminal designed by Norman Foster is scheduled to open in early 2008. Half a million volunteers are being trained to answer visitors' questions--about one for every foreign tourist expected to show up. Government officials say some 4 million Beijing residents have received English-language lessons. Famous for aloofness and droll irony, the city's people have been getting training in other areas too in the hope that they will curb their spitting, erratic driving, incessant littering and inability to form an orderly line...
...have actually worsened. An Amnesty International report last month described a new crackdown on domestic media, including continued imprisonment of journalists and writers, forced dismissals and the closure of publications that offend the authorities. In July, for example, authorities summarily shut down the China Development Brief, a decade-old English-language monthly...
...support for the government of Sudan--where China is the biggest investor in the growing oil industry as well as its biggest customer, importing about two-thirds of the country's crude production last year--amounts to support for genocide in Darfur. For years, Eric Reeves, a professor of English at Smith College, has been writing articles and giving speeches on Darfur and China's role there. Then in March, actress Mia Farrow wrote a column for the Wall Street Journal calling for a boycott of what she labeled the "Genocide Olympics." The campaign may have had some effect...
...Sever Hall, Rachel K. Popkin ’08 joined a band of approximately 30 sci-fi enthusiasts for the first meeting of another new course—English 182, “Science Fiction,” taught by Associate Professor of English and American Literature and Language Stephen Louis Burt...
...10” also serves as a gigantic mixer for the incoming class of future i-bankers. Time for networking! Overall: 4 High point: Class in Sanders Theatre (stare at the amazing architecture while you zone out—yes, that’s the only high point) ENGLISH 193: AN INTRODUCTION TO 20TH CENTURY LITERARY THEORY Course Description: This course examines New Criticism, phenomenological criticism, psychoanalytical criticism, semiology, the Frankfurt school, blah blah blah blah. You won’t understand a thing Professor de la Durantaye is talking about, but you won’t need...