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...Yellow Earth” takes place in a village on the banks of the Yellow River, where a soldier has been sent to collect folk songs to be used for promoting the Communist Revolution. His primary source is a young girl named Cuiqiao, who longs to escape her village and the arranged marriage that awaits her. Through haunting, tragic songs the girl communicates to the soldier—and, it is implied, to the country that surrounds them—the misery and oppression of life in rural China...
...emails, which were sent as late as 10:47 p.m. last night, caused confusion among several undergrads who said they had signed up to host prefrosh, but hadn't been assigned...
...according to the advisory. The assailant then revealed a handgun, after which the victim dropped his backpack and ran away. The student was not injured in the incident, the advisory said. The Cambridge Police Department is investigating the incident because it did not occur on Harvard University property. HUPD sent a community advisory e-mail yesterday morning to all students, faculty, and staff at Harvard’s Cambridge Campus, and to some at the Longwood campus, according to HUPD spokesperson Steven G. Catalano. The e-mail is the second of its kind to be sent out this week, before...
...Colleges around the country are fielding more appeals for additional aid than usual. At North Carolina's Davidson College, the number of appeals had jumped sixfold by March - before the school had even sent students award letters detailing their financial-aid packages - compared with the same period last year. At Iowa's Grinnell College, appeals for more funds have jumped as much as 50% compared to last spring, and the aid office at the University of Texas at Austin estimates that half the phone calls it receives these days are requests for an aid bump. Earlier this month, the Department...
...whose rants about everything from Obama's decision to repudiate the torture of enemy combatants to his handshake with Chávez seem both ungracious and unhinged. "We obviously haven't found our voice yet," says Senator Lamar Alexander, one of the more thoughtful GOP leaders. "The American people sent us to the woodshed. And when you go to the woodshed, the best course of action is to sit there, be quiet, figure out why you're there and what you can do about...