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...After hearing that her boss is looking to replace her, Lu Qingmin quits her job in a factory's human resources department: "In August 2004, two months after she arrived, Min collected her pay and left without telling anyone... she spent the night in a hotel near her factory; while she slept, someone broke the lock on her door. The thief took nine hundred yuan [about $130] and Min's mobile phone, the only place where she had stored the numbers of everyone she knew in the city: the ex-colleague who was her only link...
...usually with people my age or in urban areas and don’t directly interact with people who experienced it,” he said. For people of his generation, he said, the Cultural Revolution is a hard thing to grasp, and this movie gave it a human face. Xing’s film has been shown informally five or six times in China, Xing said, but there are no plans to release it with government approval. Goldman commended Xing for his desire to educate a naïve young Chinese population. “As a westerner...
...Um…that was campaign-trail hogwash, Hoss. Hate to burst your bubble. Maybe you haven’t noticed, but we’ve never really been the go-to guys for compassion—or prudence, or honesty, or the human touch. Ours is the big tent of Joe Lieberman and Alberto Gonzales. You’re right, though; Gramps isn’t pulling it off. No use being a wolf in a temperamental and frustrated old man’s clothing. Horseshit doesn’t work without a healthy dose of charm...
...college that will fit a student’s wants and needs. [The rankings] are there to help get you started.” Former Harvard College Dean Harry R. Lewis ’68 also took a circumspect view on the most recent rankings announcement. “Human beings are complex, and what’s best for one person won’t be best for another,” Lewis said in a written statement. “So I approve of transparency, but tend not to assign to much significance to one-dimensional rankings...
...doesn’t take music as an end itself but rather as a means for other more human-related goals,” said Samer M. Haidar ’08-’09, a friend of Koh’s. “He believes it’s his duty as a musician to use music as this kind of conduit—dialogue between people...