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...down. After paying his "middleman" for a new supply of DVDs about once every two weeks - he has about 1000 titles for sale at any one time - Zhou says he earns less than one RMB per disc sold. "It's definitely a volume business," he says wearily. When I press him on where his middleman gets his product - that is, who's actually making these pirated DVDs - Zhou smiles and plays dumb. He knows I'm a journalist and there are things he's not going to tell me. "I think they're made somewhere here in Shanghai," he says...
...Music. Professors Daniel P. Carpenter, Margaret Crawford, Kay K. Shelemay, Anne C. Shreffler, and Salil P. Vadhan ’95 beat out some 2,800 applicants. The 189 artists, scholars, and scientists who won the Guggenheim Fellowships will receive a total of $7,600,000, according to a press release. All five of Harvard’s winners plan to use their grants, announced last Friday, to finance a year off from teaching. “One is always delighted to get a Guggenheim,” said Shelemay, the Watts professor of music and professor of African...
...driver was friendly. Cell phones, he says, are often used as detonating devices for car bombs; the driver's signal would have been perceived as a threat. He says that cell phones were immediately confiscated from stopped cars for this reason. After she returned to Italy, Sgrena told the press that she was not allowed to use her cell phone, which she claims was evidence that the military tried to cover up the fact that they attempted to kill...
...Moments later, the gloomy church glows incandescent as worshipers press forward to light their candles from the so-called "heavenly fire." Sometimes it isn't just the candles that catch fire - beards and hair crackle spectacularly in the chaotic crush around the flame-bearing priests. Skeptics denounce the ritual as a 1,200-year-old sleight-of-hand whose secret is passed from one generation of high priests to the next. But for the thousands of gathered worshipers, it was proof of God's existence and Christ's resurrection...
...Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), which announced Tuesday that its 2008 fiscal year quota for H-1B visas had already been filled. USCIS began accepting applications on April 2 and had already received approximately 150,000 applications for the 65,000 visas by that afternoon, according to a press release. “This is what everyone expected,” Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 wrote in an e-mailed statement. “A few of our students were able to get their applications in on time. Unfortunately most weren?...