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...Pennsylvania’s Chinese a cappella group PennYo, a play on the word “peng you,” Chinese for “friend.” Erkin Y. Uyghur ’08 performed traditional music of his native Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwestern China. He said he is the “first and only” ethnic Uyghur at Harvard. “Since I got here last fall, I’m trying to let more people know about my culture,” he said. —Staff writer...
...five business schools remained unchanged from last year. Behind Harvard were Stanford, the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton), MIT, and Northwestern...
...dank night in February 2004, anonymous calls to emergency services in Lancashire, England, gave the first hint of something that would expose the harsh life, and deaths, of a group of Chinese illegals. The calls warned that cockle pickers had been caught by the tide on England's northwestern seaboard, at Morecambe Bay. Last Friday, one caller, later identified as Lin Liang Ren, from Fuzhou city, China, was convicted of the manslaughter of 21 Chinese men and women. (Authorities believe another two died that night, but their bodies have never been found.) Lin, the "gangmaster" of the cocklers, had misjudged...
...communication at SUNY Buffalo, tracks pornography's pivotal role in the development of communications systems from the telephone to the Internet, with a reading list that ranges from student blogs to the Congressional Record. And in her graduate-level class on obscenity, media-studies professor Laura Kipnis of Northwestern University examines how publications like Hustler can define class stratification in the U.S.--by discussing the work of the 16th century satirist Franois Rabelais as well as skin magazines...
...Carville: I always wanted to be a sports broadcaster. I'm having tons of fun working with the people at XM. I picked Northwestern State which I'm ecstatic about. I think LSU matches up well with Duke. I think they can beat Duke. I've got them in my final four. Is that an honest pick? I don't know, but I think they're pretty good...