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...After hearing that her boss is looking to replace her, Lu Qingmin quits her job in a factory's human resources department: "In August 2004, two months after she arrived, Min collected her pay and left without telling anyone... she spent the night in a hotel near her factory; while she slept, someone broke the lock on her door. The thief took nine hundred yuan [about $130] and Min's mobile phone, the only place where she had stored the numbers of everyone she knew in the city: the ex-colleague who was her only link...
...photographs and a collage taken in Ghana over the past few years. His subject is the complexity of modern African culture, which he expresses through his images, as in one photograph of people in tradition dress talking on cell phones. Harris, 43, was born in New York but spent part of his childhood in Tanzania. He currently splits his time between New York and Ghana. He is inspired by different American and African cities in which he has lived in. Harris discussed the progression of his art over what he called a “remarkable 20-year journey...
...wagon, boys. Our man Mac looks more and more like a hack: He’s changing his mind every three days, his running matethough a looker—comes across as a little…light in the skills department, and the pair of them have looked spent for coupla weeks now.” “Hit ’em!” “What’s that, Karl?” “Knockout punch. Has that blowhard Biden ever been seen with an infant not his own?...
...Neuhauser was one of the few Americans who knew a lot about what was going on in China during those times—he knew better than scholars,” said Ronald Suleski, the program liaison officer for the Fairbank Center, who coordinated the event. Like Neuhauser, Spelman spent many years in academia and government, first as a professor at Bucknell and later as a diplomat, working for 30 years in the State Department. Spelman was also selected as the speaker because of his relationship with Neuhauser—the two worked together during Spelman’s time...
...Rashid said. “Kabul has become the new Kashmir,” Rashid said, referring to the growing rivalry between Indian and Pakistani intelligence services in Afghanistan’s capital. Some audience members, including Kurt L. Sonntag, a Kennedy School national security fellow who has spent time in Afghanistan and Pakistan, disagreed with where Rashid placed blame for the Taliban’s rise. “Some of the premises that the U.S. is at fault are not quite correct,” Sonntag said. “But there needs to be an international solution...