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Xiangsan Liang, a first-year graduate student in fluid dynamics from the city of Hangzhou near Shanghai, says that he was attracted to Harvard by the high caliber of the University's faculty...
That said, I must caution against expecting too much. Raises won't be anywhere near the 30% threshold being doled out (again) to millionaire thirtysomething bankers and brokers. That's Wall Street. We at least pretend to live in the real world...
...that the prosecution's case is a slam dunk: there is no physical evidence tying Markhasev to the murder last January on a freeway off-ramp near Brentwood, Calif., and the only eyewitness failed to identify Markhasev in a police lineup. Most of the case will rest on the easily impeachable testimony of various drug-taking and drug-dealing associates of the defendant's, and a friend who fingered him for a $100,000 bounty offered by the National Enquirer (the friend led cops to a wooded area where Markhasev supposedly hid the gun; police indeed found a pistol...
...Miho Museum I.M. Pei is best known for resounding Modernist statements like the Rock and Roll Museum in Cleveland, Ohio. For this project in the hills of a nature preserve near Kyoto, Japan, he chose literal understatement--80% of the main building is belowground. But first he leads visitors along a wooded pathway, through a tunnel and over a cable suspension bridge, an enchanted path to buried art treasures...
...marksmanship training before delivering weapons to members of the public, it does not regulate the resale of those weapons. As many as 500,000 weapons have been sold to the public under the program since 1921, and the military has earmarked a further 373,000 for release in the near future. Which may bring a growing number of militiamen and gang-bangers to your local tag sales...