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...friends out on a friday evening, the seafood plentiful, the conversation flowing. Maria Zhang - big hoop earrings, tight velvet jacket and a good deal of meticulously applied makeup - starts to describe an island that everyone is talking about off the east coast of Thailand. It has great diving, she says, and lots of Chinese there so you don't have to worry about language. Her friend Vicky Yang is hunched over a borrowed laptop, downloading an e-mail from a pesky client on her cell phone. An actuary at a consulting firm, Vicky needs to close a project tonight. While...
...subject that doesn't come up - and almost never does when this tight-knit group of friends gets together - is politics. That sets them apart from previous generations of Chinese élites, whose lives were defined by the epic events that shaped China's past half-century: the Cultural Revolution, the opening to the West, the student protests in Tiananmen Square and their subsequent suppression. The conversation at Gang Ji Restaurant suggests today's twentysomethings are tuning all that out. "There's nothing we can do about politics," says Chen. "So there's no point in talking about...
...race was incredibly tight and both crews fought extremely hard for any advantages,” he said. “[It] was far harder and more level than it may have appeared to spectators, both boats were very evenly matched. We were able to race the better race on the day, however, and get our stern into the lead...
...Medical School faces tight federal research budgets, Flier will have to seek out new methods of funding for the school's projects. He said that part of his job as dean is to raise funds for both research and the expansion of financial aid to medical students, a priority Faust said she shared. Flier added that Harvard's efforts to award scholarships “appear to be insufficient...
...competitors, which means they seldom manage to talk about faith in a way that doesn't disturb people, doesn't divide them, doesn't nail campaign posters on the gates of heaven. Republicans have been charged with exploiting religious voters, Democrats with ignoring them: Hillary Clinton's voice gets tight as she recalls the mocking response she received when she first spoke in spiritual terms about the longing that people felt to invest in causes larger than self-interest. "I talked about my faith years ago and was pilloried for it," she says, and it is hard to tell...