Word: xiao
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...Xiao Wang, as he is introduced to me, is propped up against a wall in one of the bars. The 29-year-old architect, who sports a discreet stud earring and a fresh razor cut, looks puzzled when I ask him about the drawbacks of being gay in Beijing, whether he gets hassled by the authorities? "Hassled for what? Being gay?" He laughs. "Why would they want to do that...
...McCarty said. “That’s a key element that’s missing here...We have to create something where someone has an incentive to get the faculty to get their book orders in.”The chair of the statistics department, Xiao-Li Meng, proposed an alternative solution to that problem. Meng suggested that every department appoint a staff person to remind professors to send their book titles to the Coop and collect information on those books. Such a procedure already exists in the statistics department, Meng said. “I view this...
...Statistics Department celebrated its 50th anniversary this weekend with a two-day symposium, uniting professors, students, and alums with a shared passion for data sets, regressions, and standard deviations. The event kicked off on Friday morning with speeches from Department Chair Xiao-Li Meng, Dean for the Physical Sciences Jeremy Bloxham, and University President Drew G. Faust, among others. The celebration featured panels on how sectors of the field have changed over the past 50 years, and speakers sought to show the impact that Harvard statistics faculty have had within their discipline. The weekend’s proceedings also served...
...Chinese citizen, I found Elegant's depiction of young Chinese as apolitical and materialistic rather naïve. He assumes that certain "Paris Hilton" types are representative of their generation, and that functional democracy and governments responsive to citizens cannot exist without a ballot-style voting system. Deng Xiao-Ping's pragmatism, as well as redefining socialist economics, has brought about new understandings of democracy and politics for China's youth. The "Me Generation" have certainly hit the right political buttons so far, prompting governmental commitments to keeping them "rich and happy." Mingyi Yao, Melbourne...
...Meanwhile, retailers at Golden Resources say they have little choice but to hang on in hopes that customers will eventually discover the megamall. Xiao, the shoe salesman, is upbeat. "The store manager always tells us we should persevere, it will be getting better," he says. It's hard to imagine things getting worse. As a mall security guard dryly observes: "On weekdays we have so few cars, this must be the best parking lot in Beijing." Unfortunately for the builders, it's a parking lot attached to 6 million sq. ft. of unloved retail space...