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...report’s recommendations.Thomas F. Kelly, Knafel professor of music, said he feared that the task force’s ideas might simply remain “a very handsome report that we will remember for a great many years.”Statistics Department Chair Xiao-Li Meng, another of the report’s authors, said he was optimistic.“We need to put all our beautiful minds together to come with practical and sustainable strategies for teaching,” he said.OTHER BUSINESSTen members of the Faculty have already been chosen to assist President...
...casual” and not assigned, the UC this semester abandoned a short-lived policy of visiting sponsored parties to make sure that they were adhering to UC party grant terms—including that the event provide some food and non-alcoholic beverages. FiCom Chair Zander N. Li ’08, also a Crimson editorial editor, said the change came because the UC now disbursed its party grants by reimbursing receipts, not paying up front. The DAPA grant program was piloted during Harvard-Yale weekend, according to Director of the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Services Ryan...
...world's most dangerous jobs. Officially, about 5,000 of his fellow workers died in mining accidents last year. Unofficially, nobody knows how many were killed. In the space of a single week late last year, gas explosions and accidents in four mines left nearly 100 miners dead. Li Yizhong, head of the State Administration of Work Safety Supervision, described the carnage as "unprecedented" and blamed the deaths on collusion between local officials and greedy mine owners. Indeed, throughout China, the coal magnates of Shanxi are notorious for their extravagance. Chinese newspapers regularly tally the number of Hummers, Ferraris...
...supervision of mining. When news of the collapse emerged, the media have alleged, the contractors tried to cover up the seriousness of the accident by reporting that only five men were trapped, a delay the authorities say impaired rescue operations. On Feb. 26, a provincial court in Shanxi sentenced Li Fanyuan, who it said was owner of the Zuoyun mine when the accident happened last May, to 16 years in prison on charges relating to his responsibility for the deaths...
Such practices leave central-government officials fuming helplessly. After the string of accidents that left more than 100 miners dead in November, Li, Beijing's top official in charge of work safety, alleged that in one case, in which 32 died, local officials had ignored an order to close a shaft. "With local governments as backstage supporters, unscrupulous mine owners just keep operating illegally," Li was quoted as saying in the state-run English-language China Daily. "This is a direct challenge to the authority of state laws and regulations...