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...return with pockets full of foreign currency - a lucrative cycle drivers can repeat dozens of times a day. In recent months, though, the Silk Street Market's once reliable bustle has thinned dramatically. "I haven't seen a single tour bus pulling into the market this morning," says Lao Qian, a 49-year-old rickshaw driver taking a long lunch break. "And I've had a total of three customers since yesterday...
...later stages, the field was trimmed dramatically due to the appearance of words that not even Microsoft Word’s spellcheck could comprehend, such as fomites, skookum, and sialogogue. By this point, the number of contestants was reduced to four: Mass. Hall’s Athena L. Lao, Greenough’s Steven N. Maheshwary, Richard C. Alt of Matthews, and Pennypacker’s Ryan D. Smith. All four contestants spelled their words incorrectly in the initial segment of the final round. Lao then spelled two words in a row correctly, ending the first annual Freshman Spelling...
...they are still waiting for official approval from the Educational Policy Committee, said department chair John M. Duffy. Veronica R. Koven-Matasy ’10, the Junior class representative for the Classics department, however, has been updating her fellow concentrators about these reforms via e-mail. Athena L.M. Lao ’12, a freshman who plans to concentrate in Classics, said that she learned about the upcoming changes through the Crimson and her TFs. “When the changes they have in mind are set in stone, I think it’s important they communicate them...
...voting in favor of the legislation shows that “students really care about passing this,” said Athena M. Lao ’12, a co-sponsor who added that she would concentrate in an ethnic studies concentration if it existed today...
...your parents’ bookshelf—if they were hippies—or in a New Age second-hand bookshop redolent of old incense. Although the bookflap boasts that Gibran is the “3rd bestselling poet” in the world (after William Shakespeare and Lao Tse), his works, including his masterpiece “The Prophet,” have largely sunk into obscurity. The Lebanese-American poet was either deified or demonized for most of the 20th century. Recently a far worse fate has befallen his works: indifference. Published...