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Born in Beijing in 1955, Feng grew up during the tumult of China’s Cultural Revolution, in which Mao Zedong’s efforts to renew the nation’s spirit of revolution and purge intellectuals resulted in mass starvation and economic disaster...
...Harvard failed to close the gap in the first 15 minutes of the second half, a comeback grew less and less plausible...
According to Andrew N. C. Klein ’12, the Advocate’s newly-christened Community Outreach Director, the workshop program grew out of the perceived need to develop ties with people who “might not logically feel like they are members of the Advocate community...
...Fonseka supporters moved near the yellow barricades set up by the police, their shouts grew louder. They pushed, they shoved, and they pleaded with police to let them pass. The pleading and shouting went on for a bit, while 100 meters away, on a small grassy knoll, another crowd gathered, armed with stones, bottles and sticks. The groups eyed each other ominously until the pro-Fonseka crowd grew in number and in noise and pushed the barricade down. The pro-Fonseka activists marched toward the knoll, and stones, bottles and sticks began flying first at them and then from them...
Neither man knows how long ago the tree was carved - though they speculate that a Chumash family that lived on a nearby hillside until they all died in the 1918 flu epidemic may have tended to the arborglyph as the bark and lichen grew back - but they're just relieved that Saint Onge was able to find it at all. "The upkeep of the motif itself has gone by the wayside and it's not long for the world," says Saint Onge, explaining that carpenter ants are attacking the limbs, "so I think it was a good thing that...