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...Modern Language Association report issued last November cited the steady rise of student enrollment in Chinese language courses nationwide, spotting a 50 percent hike from 2002-2006. Harvard enrollment figures have shown an upward trend over the same time period. 2005 saw the enrollment of 273 Chinese language students, followed by 348 the following year, and roughly 350 last year...
...Asked about the rise in interest, Feng pointed to both administrative policy and the enthusiasm sparked by the Beijing Olympics...
...Cranberries and Sinead O’Connor over more pop and lockable beats. The continued success of Girl Talk’s boundless, ADD-addled music is emblematic of a few cultural trends I certainly won’t be the first to mention. There’s the rise of click-happy fans whose fingers linger over the advance buttons of their ipods, the death of hard-and-fast genres, and the increasingly abbreviated nature of the musical product, from albums, to singles, to ringtones, to Girl Talk’s potpourri of 30-second hooks. Whether Gillis?...
...democratic system. Moreover, he clearly has little respect for his distinguished brother, John Darnton, who succeeded me as East European Bureau Chief for The New York Times, and who has spent 40 years as a journalist for that eminent institution where he won the Pulitzer Prize for describing the rise of Solidarity and the strikes at the shipyards of Gdansk, Poland...
...still smoking the metaphorical Zhong Nan Hai and not picking up on the subtext. It took one night in a club with three walls for the stupid American in me to remember that dissent in art begins at the bottom, and that it can take a long time to rise to the top. —Staff Writer Ruben L. Davis can be reached at rldavis@fas.harvard.edu...