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What I remember most about the four farmers who showed up at TIME's Beijing bureau back in 2001 was the new shirts they wore. These men were trying their best to blend in to the well-dressed crowds in China's capital. But one look and you could tell they were just poor peasants in new clothes: They were given away by their callused hands, dirt under their fingernails and the identical creases on their straight-out-of-the-box shirts - the quiet-spoken apple grower named Liang Yumin still had a piece of cardboard tucked under his collar...
...Dias was not entirely shocked that his clients were shouldering the blame. Brazil may have an admirable air safety record, but it also has collectively thin skin - and once the shock of the tragedy wore off and the investigation began, Brazilians immediately rushed to point the finger at others. Leaks from police, investigators or military officers who run Brazil's air traffic system portrayed the two pilots as irresponsible amateurs who flew at the wrong altitude, ignored controllers' orders, performed reckless maneuvers, changed their flight plan without notifying the tower or switched off crucial equipment that could have warned...
...Where was President Bush when he wore this outfit? And what was the occasion...
...United States’ team, while sophomore forward Sarah Vaillancourt skated with Team Canada. The situation for the Big Green is a bit reversed: four players—forwards Gillian Apps, Cherie Piper, and defenseman Katie Weatherston—skated for our northern neighbors, while freshman standout Sarah Parsons wore the red, white, and blue. Right now, however, neither team has its top stars at 100 percent. Chu suffered a badly sprained ankle against Minnesota-Duluth two weekends ago, and was noticeable hobbled in the last two games (after sitting out a loss to UConn on Dec. 5). Unfortunately...
...says jokingly of the four “beautiful people” with whom he shares an apartment in Allston. They go on team trips and even have matching DormAid jerseys. When their plans to go skydiving on Kopko’s birthday fell through, “we wore our jerseys and went go-carting instead,” says COO Robert D. Cecot ’08. Matching jerseys aside, Kopko is passionate about building an organization dedicated to, in his words, “empowering the next generation.” He believes that DormAid?...