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...first thing the snakehead wants to say is that he isn't some slave driver or gangster. He is, he says, a respectable businessman from Fujian's interior who settled in the Czech Republic in the early 1990s and started a textile import company. That was just after the Berlin Wall had fallen, and it was easy for an enterprising Fujianese to sell cheap cloth to Czechs. Today, he has upgraded his trading from cloth to people. Willing people, he insists. "There are too many people in China, so we have to go abroad to make money," he says...
...college basketball.That, however, has little to do with my delight at the Tournament’s conclusion.I’ve spent much of the past three weeks hunting down internet connections and sports bars in Buenos Aires, Argentina, doing my best to keep up with a tournament whose import and fan base lies almost exclusively in the United States. I’ve watched a few blurry games on a laptop prone to freezing due to a consistently interrupted feed. I’ve squinted at 14-inch televisions streaming an internet broadcast of five multi-colored blobs morphing...
...basketball team, took over the moribund program there three years ago, a persistent question hovered over him, the way Patrick Ewing once loomed over point guards when Thompson's father, Hall of Famer John Thompson Jr., coached the Hoyas during their 1980s glory years. Could he really import the Princeton Offense, the precise, pass-happy basketball style that Thompson absorbed as both player and coach at the Ivy League school, to a team like Georgetown, which competes in the high-powered Big East conference? Consider the Hoyas' most notable hoops alum over the past decade, Allen Iverson, who still enjoys...
...inclusion of students; we hope this student involvement will be a precedent she continues to support. Students are the heart of any educational institution, and while it is administrators who must run day-to-day operations, often the most qualified advisers on a given issue, regardless of its import, are those whom the decision will affect most closely. Decisions at every level should include more than nominal student input—be it for a small decision like how best to manage the temporary Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) closure, or a larger-scale decision, as in the development of Allston...
...character. “Every time you read you are reinterpreting as a reader,” Saldarriaga said. “Reading is already interpretation.” At Friday’s book-creation workshop, educators and program leaders from Harvard and local public schools aimed to import Barilaro and Saldarriaga’s techniques to use with their own projects. Said Natasha Labaze, an English teacher at Cambridge Ringe and Latin High School, “I’m having a wonderful time and trying to think of ways to apply it to the classroom...