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...bedroom deep at night, I always seem to glimpse Hui’s image around the corner, as if about to come forward and pat on my shoulder while waving handsomely at me and greeting me with his huge yet absolutely uncontrived signature smile. Hui does not impress upon first sight, and it takes time for one to look beyond a plain appearance and truly appreciate the many thousand little wonderful things about his personality. His mild temper, sharp wit, indescribable humor, as well as an almost passionate earnestness, all gradually laid solid foundation to countless cherished friendships around campus...
...just praying that they would give him the job back,” he said, speaking in Haitian Creole. His son, Steven, translated. A week before fainting in William James Hall, Paul fainted in his Dorchester home. He then informed his boss of the incident, and upon his boss’s suggestion, went to a doctor prior to fainting again, Paul said. —Staff writer Benjamin L. Weintraub can be reached at bweintr@fas.harvard.edu...
...millions of dollars of federal money have been steered toward non-profit groups supportive of U.S. Rep. Alan Mollohan. But voters in the 12-term Democrat's West Virginia district don't seem to care too much. In West Virginia, after all, pork barrel spending isn't frowned upon; on the contrary, the home state of legendary Senator Robert Byrd, widely considered the king of steering federal dollars to a congressman's home turf, tends to view the practice as just another way to provide jobs for the family down the street, if not for your...
...regime change - administered in the form of massive nuclear retaliation by the U.S. and its allies - is now assured. And that points to the last unintended benefit of North Korea's nuclear test. After more than a decade of drift, indecision and disagreement, the world may finally have stumbled upon a coherent policy toward North Korea. It's called deterrence. At least we know it's worked before...
...origins had been the prerogative of the country's right-wing neo-Nazi groups. But as the state embarks on a vicious xenophobic campaign against Georgians, the Movement Against Illegal Immigration (NDPI), a key nationalist body known among the initiated as the Movement Against Non-Slav Immigration, eagerly called upon its followers to support the state in exposing "the enemy" wherever they can be found - at marketplaces, in offices, at homes. While the state still pays lip service to weeding out violators of law and order, the NDPI and other neo-Nazis know only too well that ethnic cleansing will...