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...DIED. ZHU QIAOMEI, 96, oldest of the estimated 60 surviving Chinese "comfort women" who were forced into sexual servitude by Japanese soldiers during World War II; in Shanghai. Zhu was 27 years old and two months pregnant when captured by Japanese troops in 1938 and conscripted into one of Shanghai's 83 "comfort centers." Along with 15 other surviving comfort women from various Asian countries, Zhu joined an ongoing class-action lawsuit against the Japanese government filed in the U.S. in 2000. "Her only wish was to get justice," her son, Zhou Xin, said in a statement to Chinese media...
...contract, to be ratified by the orchestra this week. Base pay for orchestra members will rise by a small amount, to $74,000 next year (still far less than the $100,000 paid by the Chicago Symphony and other top ensembles), and the prestigious orchestra, the nation's second oldest, will get back to the business of Beethoven and Brahms...
...opening of its 157th annual musical, “Terms of Frontierment,” the Pudding has invited Robbins here to be mocked, ribbed, joshed—and, finally, to be rewarded with the cross-dressed kisses and golden Pudding Pot which are the true deserts of the oldest student company in the nation’s Man of the Year...
...orchestra's management to resume their concert season. The agreement was reached late Thursday night with the assistance of federal mediator Charles Fuchs, after the cancellation of 18 concerts drew national attention to the orchestra's first strike since 1979. Founded in 1880, the orchestra is one of the oldest symphonies in the country and has won six Grammy awards...
Tronto adds that the top-down style of university management conflicts with some of the oldest elements of universities...