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...Jiangxia never aspired to be an activist. Studious and soft-spoken, she preferred math textbooks to politics. While her contemporaries marched on Tiananmen Square in 1989, Hu remained at home in central China cramming for college entrance exams. The work paid off. She earned a spot at Shanghai's prestigious Jiaotong University and later a job as a software programmer at one of China's most successful companies in the eastern lakefront city of Hangzhou. It was there that Wang Youcai, a lanky fellow programmer, first asked her for a date. She turned him down. He'd spent four years...
...selection of Lawrence H. Summers to be Harvard's next President, professors on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) say they anticipate that a man used to the national stage would remain a high-profile figure during his stay in Massachusetts Hall, a sharp contrast to soft-spoken current President Neil L. Rudenstine...
...suspect then drew a silver handgun and demanded that the victim give him all of his money. victim complied and the suspect, who was also wearing a hat, and a green jacket fled the scene. The victim also described the suspect as very well spoken or educated...
...really takes the place of a good yarn, and that's where this production truly shines. If any playwright should be performed in a pub, it's McPherson. You need to see the contours of his characters' faces at close range and hear every one of their vocal inflections spoken only a few feet away from you. J. Michael Griggs' set design for the Boston Center for the Arts Black Box Theater is not a far cry from just such an atmosphere. His abstract black, stone and wood arrangement is reminiscent of nothing in particular, but it seems...
...substance, it was effective at displaying diplomacy and bipartisan spirit. Even barbed references to "the way we did things in recent years," and veiled insults at the Clinton style ("We didn't take a poll") went over like honey. In his delivery Bush was personal and poised, well-spoken and witty. He displayed remarkable timing and confidence. In short, he worked the room the way Clinton used to--maybe better because Congress actually likes him. Also, Bush arrived on time, kept his speech to one hour, and began without a broken teleprompter. When did Clinton ever manage that...