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...Yenching Library offers Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and South Vietnamese literature ad infinitum. It houses the world's largest aggregation of Buddhists scriptures, assembled by Tibetan and Mongolian monks. The curator of the Yenching rare books collection, Sydney Tai, says he would be willing to show visitors treasures as old as the 7th century Sung Dynasty or as capacious as a 10,000 volume rare encyclopedia of Chinese history. This collection owns certain artifacts that even the people of China do not possess, according to Tai. There's only one hitch: almost all the scrolls and manuscripts are printed in Asian...
Considering that their sport, or art, is based on stability, skaters' emotions seem as fragile as snowflakes. Many of the participants appear as softly vulnerable as the star-crossed couple of Lake Placid, Randy Gardner and Tai Babilonia. Something at the base of this light and lovely sport is dark and disturbing. At tender ages, children by the pair are instructed how to hold on to each other as intimately as a man and woman, to hang on for dear life and try not to fall. When dropped, they shatter. Olympic athletes in almost all of the various sports heed...
...municipal bus fleet, beseeched Bay Area businesses to participate in Mayor Dianne Feinstein's summer jobs program, aimed at the city's approximately 15,000 out-of-school and out-of-work young people. And for one young painter, the day produced more than urban art. Tai-Li Wang, 17, author of a design praised by a celebrity panel, won a summer graphics job at a local advertising firm. Her slogan: "We Are Your Hope. You Are Our Dream...
...Tai, who is 44, has spent his eight years here as a researcher on Vietnamese law at the Law School's East Asian Legal Studies program and plans to begin studying for a master's degree at the Law School next fall. They would never think of appointing someone from this background" to an academic position, he says, adding, "A scholar must fend for himself and find a position elsewhere...
...advantages in getting tenure more quickly than scholars from Eastern Europe, for example." At some universities, American-born Slavic scholars have been preferred for tenure over Polish refugees with weak English skills. In matters of tenure, "There shouldn't be an exception for people from other countries," Baranczak says. Tai agrees: When you think of someone for an academic position, he says, "you think of his qualities, not his biography...