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...program that each year brings 200 top students from China's northeast to Japan. Five years on, Kuang's Japanese is impeccable and he's a first-year graduate student at the University of Tokyo. "When I first came here, people made fun of me because I didn't speak Japanese well," he says with a grimace. "But now, when I tell them I'm a University of Tokyo student, they think of me as that, not just as a Chinese." Kuang then breaks into a Chinese-style, open-mouth guffaw - followed quickly with the head-bob of a discreet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chasing the Japanese Dream | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

...then all sorts of chaos breaks out. But I think it's much better that way than endlessly pre-rehearsing, sanitizing, homogenizing, pasteurizing everything you say to the point of macrobiotic extinction." Some voters will be charmed by such candor; others will question his suitability to speak for the nation's capital. But win or lose, Johnson is already performing a public service by making Britons laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boris Johnson: The Clown Prince | 12/5/2007 | See Source »

...student, who then proceeded to select the correct answer by a well-honed method he called “random guessing.” Others, good students that they are, actually knew the answer—they had jumped at one of the opportunities to hear the dean speak. Whatever the case, the important question is: can we decry a man who we can barely pick out of a lineup? (Ed. note...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dean David Pilbeam: Man of a Thousand Faces | 12/5/2007 | See Source »

...would have pegged you as a Republican for sure. “Well, I did have a cardboard cutout of Clarence Thomas in my childhood bedroom. My aunt even got me a subscription to The National Review for Kids. But ever since I heard Hillary speak about her health-care plan, I’ve been hooked.” I see. You’re a policy wonk. “She was wearing this orange pantsuit, low neckline. Dude, I’d wonk that!” Braddock said with a hearty laugh. It was all beginning...

Author: By Daniel J. Mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Our Idea of Activism | 12/5/2007 | See Source »

...partnership with France - and who thereby provide all the more motivation for President Sarkozy to make the visit as planned," explained Elysée spokesman David Martinon. "We have important things to do and say together, including problems of racism and anti-Semitism that President Sarkozy will also speak unflinchingly about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sarkozy Confronted by Algerian Anger | 12/3/2007 | See Source »

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