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...mountainside town of Hanwang. The mining and manufacturing center, which sits beneath mountains covered in pine and bamboo, was ravaged by the quake. At a public square an outdoor clock is frozen at 2:28 p.m., the minute the tremor struck. Nearby a 20-foot tall statue of a rider on a horse was decapitated during the quake, and the rider's head now sits upturned at its base. Many buildings on its main street were toppled, and the Dongqi Middle School collapsed with an estimated 200 students inside...
...gets lost amid the sea of Walter Benjamins and Jürgen Habermases (the more strange accents, the more intellectual firepower).Today, striving for revolution seems a bit anachronistic: one student called Marxist ideology ‘retro’ in 1994, likening it to “Easy-Rider biker gear.” Nowadays, it’s downright antique, the antithesis of hip. Imagine a communist partygoer, desperately trying to turn the conversation to surplus value over the strains of Soulja Boy’s new single, “Yahhh!” Unlucky fellow.What...
...door frame. If she tottered just a step, if she relaxed her taut body just a little, she would touch him. “As you wish, Viscountess,” he said. “I mean not to boast of my prowess, but I am an excellent rider.”Felicity’s mouth went dry. She wagered he was. She asked: “Tell me, will it be hard?”He barely smiled at her this time, just gazed at her with heavy-lidded eyes. “Yes, Viscountess...
...from a year ago, clearing the 26-team field by an astounding 60-point margin and finishing the three-day affair with a grand total of 524 points. The Ivy League and EISL regular season champs finished day one of the weekend meet in second place, behind a solid Rider University squad, but quickly overcame this 11-point deficit to amass a 37-point advantage of its own through day two, and never looked back come day three, as it established the final 60-point margin of victory. In Friday morning’s preliminary session, senior Eddie Jou, sophomores...
...training, organized patrols of parties by sober members, and hired outside security services.” Jessica Baylan, a Princeton senior, said that many students feel that the administration’s new policies are a result of the March 2007 death of Gary DeVercelly, a student at Rider University, which is located five miles from Princeton. She added that some eating clubs have had legal troubles recently for underage drinking. But Oseroff said many students believe that the new rules might backfire because, as the university clamps down on alcohol in the dorms, much of the drinking could...