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...answer (to the third) question is that the current threat level is “yellow,” or “elevated.” Obviously I had to cheat and look it up on the Department of Homeland Security website. In any case, I have no idea what “yellow” means in practice. And while I really ought to find out, I have to run. You see, I’m meeting someone for lunch...
...Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has proposed charging international students $100 for mandatory registration in a national tracking database, vastly exceeding expected fees and eliciting sharp responses from many institutions...
...This is the Namu familiar to many Chinese, a crass celebrity famous for her fame. Her self-promotion so irks her own people in their remote homeland at the foot of the Tibetan plateau that many insist she is not Mosuo at all, just a mixed-blood descendant of 13th century Mongolian invaders dispatched by Kublai Khan...
...Leaving Mother Lake ends two decades ago with Namu departing her homeland and entering adulthood. Her life of Chinese celebrity began shortly after?and is ending now. These days Namu rarely gads about Europe on the elbows of wealthy Western men. Versace has given way to Chinese-style gowns, and her books have grown thinner as she runs out of things to say. She is, she says, negotiating to become the "cultural ambassador" for Red Pagoda Mountain cigarettes. Gone are both the glamorous Western life that she sold in Chinese and the Mother Lake upbringing that she sells in English...
Paku’s wife, Gillian F. Prowse, a post-doctoral student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, said she was pleased to hear that Harvard is investing in her homeland...