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Acquiescence to substandard health care is changing in China, especially where rapid economic progress has improved the financial well-being of the country's growing zhong chan jie ji, or middle class. More and more Chinese are willing to pay for superior health-care services. Their presence, combined with an increased number of expatriates and business travelers, has created a niche opportunity for foreign businesses. Several U.S.-based companies are setting up and managing hospitals and Western-style outpatient clinics through joint ventures with Chinese companies. About half the physicians of such companies are expats--typically from the U.S., Canada...
...from the basement and connected them to my sound system for the full surround-sound effect, so when the band struck up the Michigan fight song ("Hail! to the victors valiant/ Hail! to the conqu'ring heroes"), Dorfman, an alumnus, brushed away a tear. Emboldened, I marveled at the superior picture quality. "Supposedly, the reds are redder," I said, pointing at the ruby ESPN logo at the top of the screen...
...year each fall. Certainly, this system of representation has its pitfalls: Houses with senior representatives last year would lack a direct voice on the Council, and last year’s freshman representatives would now live in houses instead of the Yard. But even such an imperfect solution seems superior to a system that deprives students of representation altogether. Since UC efforts often continue through the summer and into the following year, an interim assembly could easily focus on these ongoing issues until elections take place, waiting for October before choosing to address any new, large-scale projects...
...permitted to develop an arresting character. But then, no one is. Everyone just behaves in what is meant to be a naturalistic manner, which occasionally worked for Altman but just as often left audiences adrift. The trouble with this kind of filmmaking is that we are encouraged to feel superior to the characters we are watching, but are not given any special justification for our misanthropy. There was nearly always something ugly, careless and unfelt about the way Altman struck his superior poses. An imitation of that style is an affront no one needs...
...coverage of the Battle of Brandywine, in which an American defeat was construed as a victory, although according to some it had cost Washington his life. I was not trying to disparage journalists, my brother least of all, by arguing that they make mistakes. Nor was I asserting the superior accuracy of historians. I was arguing for the importance of reading all texts critically, a point worth stressing in this new information age, when readers tend to think that they have access to unmediated factual knowledge by consulting their computers. ROBERT C. DARNTON ‘60 Cambridge, Mass. September...