Word: hans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...might have won gold if the winner, South Korea's Lee Jung-Su, hadn't obstructed him. The Koreans accused Ohno of playing dirty. "Ohno didn't deserve to stand on the same medal platform as me," said Lee. When asked Saurday night if she liked Ohno, A Reum Han, a skating fan who traveled from Soeul to be at the Games, slowly shook her head. "No, to be frank," she said...
...disappointed, but I’m not ecstatic either,” said Rosemary H. Han ’10, who said that she would prefer someone more in the vein of political satirist Stephen Colbert...
...home from school one day in that "obscure corner of the world" - then like the rest of the country under Japanese colonial occupation, but now a drab port with an American Air Force base nearby - the shy and sickly teenager stumbled across a volume of work by the poet Han Ha Wun lying in a roadside ditch. He devoured it, decided that "to be a poet was freedom itself" and went on to become his nation's preeminent living bard, a singer of democracy and reunification with North Korea. Whether or not you believe his tales of reincarnation, what...
...proposes to update this category by including "hypersexual disorder." Although the name sounds like something Han Solo might have had, the proposed criteria make sense: sexual fantasies take up so much time that they become repetitive, debilitating and harmful to normal functioning. Also, "sexual avoidance disorder" would be dropped and "transvestic fetishism" would become "transvestic disorder," although the diagnostic criteria themselves would not change: the DSM still seems to have a problem with cross-dressing...
...P.R.C. Adopting an Olympian perspective, their authors tend to use broad strokes to portray things that actually require a fine-grained touch. For example, most treat China's population as an undifferentiated mass, or one that can be bisected along just one axis: be it the 90% Han and 10% non-Han ethnic divide, the clear ideological fault line between loyalists and dissidents, and so on. And they often buy into the cozy but distorting official myth of "thousands of years of continuous civilization," which suggests that China's borders have remained fairly constant over time and that the "Confucian...