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...rich is glorious," Yue's paintings capture China's exuberant love affair with consumerism. But even as he also satirizes his countrymen's headlong race to make money, the native of Daqing, a grim oil town in China's northeast, doesn't view his shiny new millionaire status with much irony. "What's wrong with laughing?" Yue demands with a serious face, digging into a Shanghai eatery's rendition of braised pork shoulder, a quivering delicacy synonymous with nouveau riche fulfillment. "China isn't all dark anymore. We should be happy...
...morphs into his alter-ego, super-eater, by night. “I tried to keep it a secret from my parents,” Mih says. “Then I realized parents can Google their kids.” Despite parental disapproval, Mih enjoys his minor celebrity status. “People talk about you as if you’re some sort of athlete” he says. He’s entered competitions with pizza, jalapeños, cannoli, crab cakes, grilled cheese, and hot dogs. “The strangest food would be something...
...Chad. Adoption arranged by an organization not officially chartered for that function is also prohibited in France. Officials at Zoe's Ark explain their intention was to get the children to safety in France by any means, then initiate extraordinary procedures once on French soil to obtain special refugee status for the children. Though the youngsters were to be placed in foster home for care, Zoe's Ark said that the goal of the program in no way involved adoption - for profit or otherwise...
...such as reducing the class size to 12 from about 14, increasing the funding of the program so that teachers are of higher quality, and involving professors in the program, will require attention and energy from the administration. Yet University Hall seems to care little about Expository Writing.Given the status quo, it’s not surprising that many preceptors The Crimson interviewed identified a lack of communication between the program and the rest of the University as a top concern. We see no way that Expository Writing in its current form could be anything less than a second class...
...result, critics of Bush's Cuba policy argue his address simply helped preserve rather than undermine Cuba's nebulous status quo. And they're urging Washington again to consider stepped-up contact with Raul Castro - widely regarded as more pragmatically flexible than Fidel - as a more effective means of jump-starting a democratic transition. "President Bush is right when he says this is a unique moment in Cuba, but he's missing that moment," says Jake Colvin, director of USA Engage in Washington, which favors moves like lifting the ban on U.S. travel to Cuba - something even most Cuban-Americans...