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...subject that doesn't come up - and almost never does when this tight-knit group of friends gets together - is politics. That sets them apart from previous generations of Chinese élites, whose lives were defined by the epic events that shaped China's past half-century: the Cultural Revolution, the opening to the West, the student protests in Tiananmen Square and their subsequent suppression. The conversation at Gang Ji Restaurant suggests today's twentysomethings are tuning all that out. "There's nothing we can do about politics," says Chen. "So there's no point in talking about...
...four years as co-Master of Currier, Patricia O’Brien oversaw changes reflecting the House’s growing reputation as a close-knit place adored by residents despite its location in the distant Quad...
...sidewalk of a narrow dirty street of drab apartment blocks on one side and a small garden and beige stone clad mosque on the other. Since his death, the Lebanese army and police apparently have not entered the area, wary of the simmering resentment in this close-knit quarter...
...city,” Sommer said. Sommer said that the focus of the class, sponsored by the Belfast Harbour Commissioners and Titanic Quarter Limited, a waterfront development firm, is to find ways to “recast the image of the city” and “knit the port back to the city center.” Belfast, which was a booming center of shipbuilding and linen production around the turn of the last century, underwent a three-decade period of violence between Protestants and Catholics called the Troubles that ended in 1998. “There wasn?...
...Banderas. He speaks English with only a slight accent; he has the kind of calm, even voice that must come in handy for delivering bad news to patients. Lounging in the kitchen of the large, neat house he shares with his wife and two children, he wears a cable-knit sweater and a baseball cap that says Miller High Life on it, which he keeps on even inside...