Word: mandarin
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Because you are an American, and Americans know that nothing good can last. Every boom goes bust. Every heart gets broken. We have been conditioned to look for the lead lining in every cloud. "There's something about the mandarin class of America--they have a hard time taking yes for an answer," says Philip Burgess, president of the Center for the New West, a Denver think tank. "But after 15 years of hand-wringing about America's competitive decline, the national media [are] coming to their senses...
...leap of faith is--and has to be--a plunge into the unrational (which to skeptics seems "unreasonable"), and by its nature it is a move that leaves the rest of us behind. Every religion is a different language that, to those outside it, makes as little sense as Mandarin dialogue or Cyrillic characters...
...very small boy, but the village elders remember him distinctly because his family was descended from a mandarin, the most famous citizen of the humble settlement of Paifangcun until, well, until the very small boy came along. The eminent ancestor had passed the torturous series of civil examinations to prove he was a master of the Confucian classics and thus fit to serve the Emperor in faraway Beijing. And the boy's forefather did just that, at the very height of empire, when the Sons of Heaven, as the Emperors were called, could afford to sneer at the Western barbarians...
...Democratic Party. It's all in a month's work for Weisskopf, who in 19 years at the Washington Post garnered a fistful of journalism honors, including Pulitzer nominations and a George Polk Award. He was well prepared to follow the Asian money trail with the fluent Mandarin he perfected in two tours in Beijing--from 1980 to 1985, and again in 1989 to cover the Tiananmen uprising...
...personal profile, we turned to senior editor Howard Chua-Eoan, who has much in common with Ho. Both are immigrants (Chua-Eoan from the Philippines, Ho from Taiwan) and eldest sons. They share two Chinese dialects (Fujian and Mandarin), and both still do math in their head in Chinese...