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...decided to pursue a second Ph.D. in political economy at Harvard. He testified before Congress and spoke at numerous international human-rights conferences. Still, he talked constantly of returning to China. He neither sought political asylum nor applied for U.S. citizenship. When his Chinese passport expired he attempted to renew it over and over again. But his activism had earned him banishment. "He desperately wanted to go back and try to effect political change," says Jared Genser, a Harvard classmate who is president of Freedom Now, a legal-advocacy group lobbying for Yang's release. In exile, Yang suffered from...
...would anyone want their kids in such an environment? The answer begins with nudist demographics. Two years ago, A.A.N.R. paid the marketing firm Claritas Inc. to analyze the membership of the 72-year-old group. Claritas found that the cluster most likely to renew A.A.N.R. membership is a group it labels "God's Country"--primarily executives from the exurbs who tend to be Republican. Their key issues are tax reform and terrorism; they like Golf Magazine and GMC Safari vans. And most have kids at home...
Grouped in tiny knots of fewer than half a dozen, many of these special-forces veterans were dropped into northern Iraq months before the war. The teams began to renew old ties and make new ones, traveling with interpreters, wearing local garb, trying to blend in and take control. An Army captain who jumped into the region with a team of four others told TIME that his detachment suddenly found itself in charge of 300 Kurdish fighters from the north, known as peshmerga, who had been fighting Saddam for a dozen years. Joint strategy meetings were anything but regular Army...
...mankind's savior will try to keep his Toyota Tundra out of the clutches of a 160-ton crane. The summer keeps on truckin' with Bad Boys II (Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in a Ferrari and a Hummer) and the freewheelers of S.W.A.T. Fasten your seat belts and renew your auto insurance, film lovers; it'll be a bumpy, rambunctious ride...
Since Lagemann’s arrival in Cambridge, Summers says he has worked together with her and professors at the GSE “to renew the Education School and more sharply focus the University’s efforts in education on the crucial issue of public school education between...