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...friend from Shanghai leaned over to share her shameful secret: "I watched some of the Olympics," she said, in a tone of voice implying that this was a transgression akin to sleeping with her best friend's boyfriend or - even worse in this fashion-crazed city - toting an obvious knock-off handbag. For months, many citizens of China's most populous city gritted their teeth as Beijing got all the glory. But now that the Olympics are over, Shanghai is determined to reclaim the title of China's most happening metropolis. Just four days after the Summer Games' closing ceremony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard: Shanghai | 9/24/2008 | See Source »

...project, the artists negotiated contracts with 59 cattle ranchers. “I remember I made a few boo-boos the first few days,” Jeanne-Claude said in a clip from a documentary that was shown at the event. “I would knock on the door at a reasonable time, like 7:30 or 8 p.m., and I would wake up the whole house.” But after overcoming early misunderstandings, she said the rancher community turned into one of her most valued allies. “Ranchers are very pragmatic people, they...

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Law School Honors ‘The Gates’ Artists | 9/24/2008 | See Source »

...Dubai.“This is my lowest price, I can go no lower, I could be killed, I cannot feed my family for any lower price,” the owner of a shop once said to me with tears welling in her eyes. I looked at the knock-off shoes I was bargaining for, sighed, and paid the price she was asking. As I walked away, I turned around to watch her and her co-worker giggle with excitement. I had been had.The scene above played out in a market typical of Shanghai: four- or five-floor...

Author: By Andrew F. Nunnelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Shanghai-tened Reality | 9/19/2008 | See Source »

...beautiful game often cruelly flatters to deceive. In a sport in which even the slightest error becomes terrifically magnified, a team that shows the spirit and offensive prowess to truly knock back its opponent can often be punished for that very same tenacity.At the University of Rhode Island (URI) Soccer Complex last night, the Harvard men’s soccer team (2-2) was that squad.Ninety-one minutes of attacking verve—replete with 65-percent possession and 14 total shots—came undone in the second minute of the extra period when URI substitute forward Erkko Puranen...

Author: By Mauricio A. Cruz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Falls to URI in OT | 9/17/2008 | See Source »

...friend from Shanghai leaned over to share her shameful secret: "I watched some of the Olympics," she said, in a tone of voice implying that this was a transgression akin to sleeping with her best friend's boyfriend or - even worse in this fashion-crazed city - toting an obviously knock-off handbag. For months, many citizens of China's most populous city gritted their teeth as Beijing got all the glory. But now that the Olympics are over, Shanghai is determined to reclaim the title of China's most happening metropolis. Just four days after the Summer Games' closing ceremony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shanghai: After Beijing Games, Back in the Spotlight | 9/17/2008 | See Source »

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