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...This past weekend, the Harvard Table Tennis Team sent three of its best players to the 2010 College Table Tennis National Championships in Waukesha, Wisconsin for the first time in four years. Although the trip was not subsidized and the players had to pay out of pockets, they were still happy to attend the three-day tournament, which hosted over 250 table tennis players from more than 40 different colleges and universities...
...group calling itself Friends United for Chinese Knicknacks and Against Detention of Ancient Manchurian Stuff took credit for stealing the gong—which, in the past, had been sounded when non-Adams House residents attempted to eat in the conveniently located dining hall...
...ranking of raw salary numbers does not take into account the cost of living in certain areas (and we know Cambridge isn’t exactly the cheapest locale), or early retirement plans that long-time professors (a.k.a the most highly paid) might have taken advantage of in the past year, bringing down the institutions’ average salaries...
...that doesn't taste particularly strongly of anything? The testimonials to its cultural power? If so, you're probably thinking of arugula, whose cultural life cycle has already come and gone. Arugula, a salad green that looks kind of like lettuce, became so gentrified over the course of the past 20 years or so that Kamp used it in the title of his 2006 primer on how we became a gourmet nation: The United States of Arugula...
...more than a year ago, the news was first revealed on Twitter and then spread to the mainstream press. Ai Weiwei, a Chinese artist who has organized an investigation into the deaths of children whose schools collapsed in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, has been active on Twitter over the past year; he now has 33,000 followers. Recently he began posting birthday memorials for students who died in the quake. In a recent interview with CNN, Ai, who helped design the "Bird's Nest" Olympic stadium in Beijing, predicted that social media would one day overcome China's censorship regime...