Word: wu
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Other numbers--including that paragon of male bonding, "Johnny O'Connor," and a powerful "Walk Between the Raindrops"--followed like clockwork, and the set reached a climax with a riveting rendition of William Blake's "Jerusalem," featuring a rich solo from Ignatius Wu...
...Thomas Wu, who is the proctor for Wigglesworth B and C-entries, said the alarm was only a coincidence. It was scheduled to go off at 8:30 p.m. that evening, he explained. Wu said he had not heard that a pipe had burst...
...Wu Wen-shuo, a Taiwanese student, will be finishing medical school next year at UCLA. After that, he would like to remain in the U.S. So would many foreign residents. But Wu has an edge: cash, and lots of it. Under one provision of the sweeping new immigration law that took effect last week, permanent residency can go to investors who put at least $1 million -- or half that in rural or depressed areas -- into an American business that employs 10 or more workers. So, Wu, 22, is injecting $1.1 million, which he got mostly from his family, into...
Investor slots like the one that Wu hopes to fill -- 10,000 each year under the new law -- are only part of the story. The law also creates more openings for immigrants from Europe through a so-called lottery that has thousands of applicants scrambling for a chance at legal residency. Other reforms will almost triple, from 54,000 to 140,000, the number of skilled workers who can enter the U.S. legally each year because American employers sponsor them. As a result, businesses and universities will have a greatly expanded chance to import professionals they cannot find at home...
Brown women's tennis Coach Norma Taylor doesn't happen to be one of those coaches. She asked number-two Serena Wu to play an Ivy title-determining match against Harvard with a broken wrist last year. She asked Anna Sloan--a top-30 player last year--to play her first match of the season against the Crimson yesterday in spite of the fact that Sloan said she would not play tennis this term...