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...Silk road gem and jade shop," the sign proudly states. Centrally located just down the street from the main mosque in Khotan, a dusty oasis town located in the vast Taklamakan Desert in China's far southwest, the shop is a focal point for the Muslim Uighurs who make up the majority of the local population. But though it is mid-morning, its gates are secured with heavy steel padlocks. Warning notices from the Public Security Bureau are pasted across the doors announcing that the business has been closed indefinitely. Until last month, this was one of the biggest private...
...power her plot of a young man's journey of self-discovery. Alistair's parents are caricatured embodiments of lowbrow, materialist Asia. Because she uses the abbreviation k to denote a thousand, we are asked to believe that Alistair's mother has "a barbaric attitude towards money - reducing something vast to a small, inconsequential syllable." His father makes bawdy comments about the breasts of "these Western women" while Alistair, rather prissily, feels his ears burn. London, on the other hand, is portrayed as a liberal haven, where artists are allowed to pursue their dreams with few worries of generating...
...since it launched in December 2005, YouTube has been largely stripped of the kind of longer-format, commercially produced content that could get you through a solitary evening at home, as opposed to a furtive interlude between spreadsheets. It's becoming what it was always meant to be: a vast galaxy of bizarre amateur snippets. It's like those restaurants that serve only tapas: there's a lot of good stuff there, but afterward, you're never sure that you actually had dinner...
...eight amazing jazz musicians we’ve played with, including the two who will come this year,” Nathan says, calling the jazz program “Harvard’s best kept secret of the arts.” Like Nathan, a government concentrator, the vast majority of jazz band members do not study music academically, nor do they plan to continue on to careers as performers. Still, these students have the responsibility of representing jazz to the student body and Harvard to the jazz world. For his part, Benny Golson seems unworried that the majority...
...young guy, but he’s developed into a great contributor.”Although it did not take Gibbons long to get his name on the stat sheet, logging a goal and an assist in his second game, his numbers this season certainly speak to vast improvement.After 10 games, the rookie boasts the team’s second-highest point total with 17, including eight in the last three contests. Perhaps more impressively, though, Gibbons has shown tremendous maturity, accumulating most of these points through his team-leading 11 assists.This unselfish behavior has endeared the rookie to head...