Word: xiao
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...DIAN XIAO...
...Aboriginal lensman to tell his own personal Dreaming story (as academic Marcia Langton tells it, "When color spread throughout the bird world, crows ignored their fellow birds and missed out, remaining black like the inchoate world from which life sprang"). If Andrew's silken surfaces seduce the eye, Liu Xiao Xian's My Other Lives #7, 2000, positively winks at us. Here the Beijing-born artist has taken the twin images of a 19th century stereograph and replaced one of the faces with his own, peeping out improbably from the garb of a parasol-holding Edwardian lady. The playfully made...
...change announced this week is well short of the changes sought by death-penalty opponents and human-rights advocates, but they will likely take it as a small step in the right direction. Xiao Yang, the President of the Supreme People's Court often says "justice and efficiency" are his watchwords. Putting a new hurdle on the road to the firing squad may not be efficient, but it might just bring a little more justice...
...Professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, who is also chair of FAS’s Committee on Pedagogy; Andrew A. Biewener, chair of the department of organismic and evolutionary biology; Benjamin M. Friedman, professor of political economy; Mary Malcolm Gaylord, professor of Romance languages and literatures; Eric Mazur, professor of physics; Xiao-Li Meng, chair of the department of statistics; Michael J. Puett, chair of the department of East Asian languages and civilizations, and Kay Kaufman Shelemay, professor of music and African and African-American studies...
...Statistics Department has gone from strength to strength in recent years under the energetic leadership of first Don Rubin and, in recent Xiao-Li Meng,” Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby wrote in an e-mail. “Noting that the department is still smaller in size than its peer departments elsewhere, it is clearly pound-for-pound among the very best in the nation...