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...corpse. As rescuers moved debris with a crane, Deng, 18, told me in nearly flawless English about life in his mountain town, about how he was preparing for his college-entrance exams before the quake struck. Eventually, I left to walk through the wreckage of Hanwang. Unclaimed bodies lay under bloody sheets. A 20-ft.-tall (6 m) statue of a rider on horseback had been decapitated by the violent shaking. The hands of a clock in a tower in the town square were stuck at 2:28 p.m. When I returned to where Deng was waiting, two covered corpses...
...Kong due to deteriorating business conditions and a poor outlook for next year. Supply chain-management firm Li and Fung, which sources clothing and other consumer goods for major American retailers and brands, announced this month that it was "undertaking a critical review of its cost structure" and could lay off as much as 4% of its local staff by early next year. Merrill Lynch expects local unemployment to reach 5% in 2009, up from the current...
...with working with all the Ph.D programs and build on structures and resources that the individual programs have.” Though the program is still in its early planning stages and a time table has yet to be set, Golan said he will be bringing together faculty to lay out possible plans over the next few months. “Flier’s only mandate was that we get started,” Golan said. There is currently little interaction among the seven individual graduate programs, Golan said. Four of the Ph.D programs are based in the Medical...
...political sphere?Achebe: Well, I think the role is determined by the life that is going on around us at any moment. And the way one writer responds to this is always different from the way another writer responds. So it’s rather risky to lay down the law for writers in general. I wouldn’t dream of doing that because it is arrogant, to begin with, but, not only that, it doesn’t work. It shows a kind of unawareness which a writer should not be encouraging.FM: You have been called...
...English-speaking world; and individuals like Jamyang Norbu, a writer and fiery orator who could have an outsize influence in this kind of forum. There are also several NGOs and individuals with regional influence over different parts of the Tibetan diaspora, and a secularist group pushing for more lay leadership...