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This week, the Wu-Tang Clan found itself playing second fiddle to its best-known artist’s seventh solo album. Ghostface Killah, whose new album, “The Big Doe Rehab,” was slated to be released the same day as the Wu-Tang Clan’s latest disc apparently forced the Killa Bees to push their album back by one week so that it wouldn’t conflict with his initial sales. One can only hope that the best is yet to come, and that the Wu‘s much anticipated...

Author: By Joshua J. Kearney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ghostface Killah | 12/7/2007 | See Source »

...Wu Tongtong had an urgent need to learn Japanese. Growing up in the grimy northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang, his biggest passion was video games. But amping up the onscreen action required Wu to master Japanese commands. Japan's brutal wartime occupation of Shenyang and other parts of China, which continues to stoke Chinese anger today, mattered little in the face of achieving total domination in his favorite video game. Both the computer and linguistic skills have since paid off. Today, Wu, 27, works in Tokyo as a software consultant, part of an influx of highly skilled Chinese labor that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chasing the Japanese Dream | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

...single biggest obstacle to closer regional ties. Japanese society remains suspicious of foreigners. Government surveys conducted in 2005 and 2006 found that nearly two-thirds of Japanese harbored negative feelings toward China, the highest percentages in more than two decades. Video game-loving software consultant Wu recalls how he was once walking to work - he held down five part-time jobs to afford his graduate-school tuition - and was stopped three times in 15 minutes by police demanding to see his alien registration card. During one stint when Wu toiled as a janitor, his Japanese boss took the Chinese workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chasing the Japanese Dream | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

...coming on and when it’s getting cold.” This year, $200 each were awarded to about 300 freshman through the fund, said Donahue. Student representatives from the north had different reactions to the first flurries. Co-Prime Minister of the Canadian Club Xiaodi Wu ’09 said his fellow countrymen were unimpressed. “I’ve seen snow, and this isn’t snow. This is God’s dandruff,” he said. Kenny W. McKinley ’08, co-president of the Alaska Klub...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Winter Wonderland | 12/4/2007 | See Source »

...RUXIANG WU, ATLANTA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for John Bolton | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

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