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...diaspora. Others include best-selling novelists like Ha Jin (Waiting) and Ma Jian (Red Dust), as well as newcomers such as Da Chen (whose Brothers came out in September). Like many of the American writers who decamped to Europe in the last century, these transplants write largely about their homeland. The Internet, satellite television and eased travel restrictions keep them abreast of life in China, but distance can give them a fresh perspective - and freedom to say things unwelcome in Beijing. The Uninvited will not get Yan invited to many Beijing banquets. Dan Dong and his wife Little Plum have...
...people crowded into a community forum in Florence with Colorado's Democratic Senator Ken Salazar, who had just toured ADX to investigate the security situation. A few days later, Republican Senator Wayne Allard made the same trip. Fremont County sheriff Jim Beicker, who is still waiting for a Homeland Security grant to upgrade his department's radio system, expressed his concerns about the flimsy fence surrounding the prison complex and staffing shortages at ADX. "I want to see these issues fixed," he said. "I don't want to have to lay awake at night and worry about problems...
...particularly noteworthy” because enrollment fell 8 percent in 2004, and only increased 3 percent in 2005, according to the report. Harvard was one of the schools that saw a drop in applications from Chinese students after Sept. 11, prompting Summers to write a letter to then-Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge ’67 protesting tightened visa policies. The drop in foreign applications to graduate programs at Harvard posed “a very serious problem for our students, for the University and, ultimately, for the United States,” Summers said at the time...
Haut and Meares may have a good point. There is not a specified threat level for places of higher learning, according to U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokesman Russ Knocke...
...kind of special. (And not just because I keep pretending to cough as I sneak Mentos candies into my mouth. There's no eating while you're becoming an American. They say it's because of the mess it leaves in the courtoom, but I think it might be Homeland Security's small way of combating the obesity epidemic.) There's an air of apprehension about the place, as if when a name is called, suddenly balloons are going to drop from the ceiling, champagne will magically appear and some avuncular guy is going to emerge from the shadows...