Word: homelands
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...from 19,000 last September. And a little noticed incident on April 8, involving a Dutch KLM 747 flight from Amsterdam to Mexico City, may result in the list being used even more aggressively. The plane was forbidden by American authorities to enter U.S. airspace because the Department of Homeland Security discovered after the flight had taken off that two of its passengers were on the no-fly list. According to government sources, the two were Saudi men who had undergone pilot training with Sept. 11 hijacker Hani Hanjour. The flight was turned back and landed in London, where...
...Chen Yifei knew that others could attract money and investment to China. What he wanted to do was far greater: bring beauty back to his homeland. The painter turned style entrepreneur, who died on April 10 at 59, began his mission rather unpromisingly: after graduating from Shanghai's premier art institute in 1965, he spent a decade monotonously painting propaganda art and portraits of Mao Zedong during the Cultural Revolution. But after migrating to the U.S. in 1982, Chen found his hyper-realist paintings of pastoral scenes and flute-playing maidens a hit with foreign collectors, who snapped...
...China's largest. Collectively, Chen's enterprises earned $200 million last year and brought an East-meets-West style to Chinese citizens caught up in the country's extraordinary economic boom. Along the way, of course, the exuberant, cigar-chomping Chen attracted plenty of money and investment to his homeland. But he succeeded, too, in his larger goal: beauty had returned to China...
Tuesday’s twin protests of a career panel that included the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) marked the best of times and the worst of times for campus activism and free speech. While the Harvard Social Forum (HSF) offered a peaceful, reasoned demonstration against perceived abuses of the agencies, another group of student hooligans attempted to disrupt the event with shameful tactics. We have one question for this latter group: How could you go so wrong...
...left at the age of six. I left China to come to America, a place where Audis, fast food, and airplane rides were ordinary. From here, I observed my homeland through the eyes of my family and the pages of the newspapers, watching a people discover and adjust to globalization, commercialization, and liberalization...