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...Xiao-Li Meng, Professor of Statistics, Chair of Department of Statistics...
...ghosts in Electric Shadows, from first-time female director Xiao Jiang, are old movie stars who entrance a new generation. Our young hero, Mao Dabing, meets his beloved, Ling Ling, in a novel fashion: she whacks him on the skull with a brick. When he recovers enough to scold her, she refuses to speak, simply handing him the key to her flat. In it he finds a private screening room, with posters and reels of ancient movies starring the doomed Shanghainese diva Zhou Xuan...
...Indeed, only a few hundred of China's athletes will ever get to participate in any single Summer Olympics. The cruelty of a system that enlists so many children and brings success to so few has led even the victorious to question the nation's obsession with Olympic glory. Xiao Jian, a lanky 30-year-old with an overgrown buzz cut, came to the Guangdong Sports Technology Institute?one rung higher on the sports hierarchy than Weilun?as a fencer back in 1989. At last year's national games, he was the men's ?p?e champion. But he was left...
...Then, almost apologetically, Xiao stands up and announces he has to go to the institute's cafeteria. Dinner lasts just half an hour?as it has for the past 15 years of his regimented life?so he mustn't be late. After that, Xiao will head to the dormitory and turn in early. Tomorrow, he will have to get up and do it all over again, just like hundreds of thousands of other cogs in China's sports machine...
Professor of Statistics Xiao-Li Meng, who will become chair of the statistics department in July, described the temporary space as adequate, but said he looks forward to some of the perks of the new offices, including centralized, convenient computing facilities for the department...